COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 November 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEK J i REPORT Supplies of southern 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 Is 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. Choicr lines of lettuce are selling at satisfactory prices. Swedes are scarce and high rates are ruling. Parsnips are selling well at advanced rates. Choice table carrots and white turnips are in good demand. Celery, spring onions ant leeks are selling freely. The market 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 coming in and cause keen competition. Desert and cooking apples and pears are scarce and high prices are ruling. Except in tho following instances the prices 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 bus. Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 5s 5d bus ten sack lots 5s 4d. Maize— Local grown. 5s per bushel. Oats.—Feed 4s. Special quotes for large lots. Partridge Peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bus. Oats.—Crushed 4s 4d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d ; Gartons and Sparrowbilfe, 4s; Duos, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley, Cape Seed—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Feed.—3» 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per ton. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lots £B.' Rice Pollard £7 per ton; small lots £7 ss. Rice Pollard.—£7. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Oake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. IDO'o, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 per ton. MolLasees.—ln caska. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ion. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and fo per 251b bag. Superphosphates, JB& 10s per ton. dandles, 25' m 16s 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 6s; medium 3s to 4s per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice 14s to 18s; medium 6s to ltte per sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Carrots.—Bast 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.— 9d to Is 6d peck. Hutt'tomatoes. —9d to Is per lb. Onions, £7 10s per ton. Leeks.—9d to Is bundle. Spinach.—3s 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. Swedles—3s to 4s cwt. Parsnips.—los to 15s per sack. Apples—Dessert, choice, 10s to 12s per case. Apples—Dessert, ohoioe 10s to 13s. Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 14s per case. Lemons—l6s per case. Rhubarb '10s to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Dressed Pork.—7o*s to 90's 6ld to 7d; 90's to 100's 6)d to 6|di; baconere 6d; choppers heavy 4d Der lb. Honey.— In 60's 61d to 7d. Eggs.— Fresh Is 3d to Is 4dppre r dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb. Linseed Oil Oake—Slabs, Meal and nuts, £11 10b per ton of 2000155. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock food procur-

able. Poultry.—Light table hens 3s to 4s; Heavy hona 4s 6d to Ss 6d ,• Cockerels 4s 6d to 5s 6d; heavy Cockerels, 6s to 7s; Good heavy ducks 7s 6d to 8a 6d; Indian runnere 4s to 5s per pair; Turkey gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; henr lid to Is per lb Uro vroizht.