COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 November 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

e TIIE .NEW ZEALAND CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, UMITVJ). ■week i \ a(<r-<Mrr •Supplies of soutliem potatoes are very short and high prices are being maintained. Limited quantities are arriving from Australia and find a ready sale. Wheat and oats are firm at recent rates. • Pollard and bran prices are stationary. Dressed pork is in excellent demand. Eggs are not so plentiful as usual for this season of the year, the wholesale prices being maintained at l ls 4d.

Spring cabbage is in good demand and fair prices are are being realized. Choice cauliflowers have advanced ir price and a good demand exists. Choicf lines of lettuce are selling at satisfactory prices. .Swedes are scarce and bitih rates are ruling. Parsnips are selling j well at advanced rates. Choice table carrots and white turnips are in good demand. Celery, spring onions anc" leeks are selling • freely. The marker is well supplied with rhubarb and satisfactory prices are being maintained. Nelson green*peas are coming to hand and meet a good demand at fair prices. The'first consignments of strawberries have arrived from Auckland and realized satisfactory prices. Hutt . gooseberries are also coining in and cause keen competition. Desert and cooking apples and pears are scarce and high prices are ruling. Except in tho following instances the pa-ices on the first page are unchanged :— Fruit.—Choice dessert and cooking apples are in good demand and high prices are ruling. Choice pears are very scarce and eagerly bought up at high prices. The alterations in prices from last week are as follow:— * Wheat.—Good whole fowl 5s 8d huts. Aspajagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 5s od bus ten sack lots 5s 4d. Maize—Local grown. 53 per bushel. Oats.—Feed 4s. Special quotes for large lots. Partridge Peas.—Seed 7s fid per bus. Oats.—Crushed 4s 4d per bushel. Seed Oata, Australian. —Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbitts, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed.--6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley, Capo Seed—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per toD. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lots £8. Rice Pollard £7 per ton; email lots £7 ss. Rice Pollard.—£7. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. IDO's, 12s; 50's, G» 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £8 per ton. Mollosses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food. 28s per oewt. ' Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tins, 3s ! per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17a per hundired; 9s per 50, and 5a per 251b Bag. Superphosphates, JBB 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16b 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, 1b 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Potatoes.—£l2 per ton. New potatoes. 2id to 3d per lb. , Cabbage.—ss to 1 6s; medium 3s to -Is per sack. Cauliflower., —Choice 14s to 18s; medium 6a to lGs pea* sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Carrots.—Best 10s to 12s; others 5s to 8s sack. Rhubarb.—lßs per dozen bunches. Turnips. White 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack. Lettuce.—4s to 6s per case. ■Nelson Green Peas.— Od to Is 6d peck. Hutt tomatoes.—9d to Is per lb. Onions, £7 10s per ton. Leeks.—9d to Is bundle. Spinach.—Bs to 4s. Lettuce—ss to 6s. Spring onions.—9d to Is 2d bunch. Marrows.—'ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Parsnips.—los to 15s per sack. Apples—l>easert, choice, 10b to 12e per case. Apples Deesert, choice 10s to 13s. Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 14s per ! case. I Lemons —16s per case. Rhubarb.—'los to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to j3s 6d haf case. T)r eased Pork.—7o's to 00's 6td to 7d: 90's to 100' a 6Jd to 63d; bacon ere > fid; choppers heavy 4d per lb. i Honey.— In 60's 6Jd to 7d. 5 Eggs.— Fresh Is 3d to Is 4d pe* f dozen. t Beeswax.—ls 8d par lb. Fungus od to 6d per lbs Walnuts—Ud per lb. s Linseed Oil Oake—Slabs, Meal - and nufs, £11 10s per ton of 20001bs. or 100'b, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the ng best and choapest stock food prooiir

able, i?ou!l:\\ — Light table hens 3e to 4b; Heavy huns 'is 6d to 5s 6d,- Cockerels 4.s 6d to Si 6c»; heavy Cockerels, 6s to 7s; Good heavy ducks 7s 6d to 8s 6d; Indian runners 4s to 5a per pair; Turkey gobblers, le to In Id per lb; horw ltd. to Is per lb Jiva weight.