COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 November 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. "WEEK) i ctEPORT Wellington No. 10. Potatoes have again shown a very sharp advance since last report. Supplies in the south are scarce and shipments continue to arrive from Australia and meet a ready sale at increased prices. The wheat market is excited' and a sharp advance has taken place. Maize also has increased in price, Oats are firm at recent rates and business rather dull. FaiLr business is passing in pollard and bran and prices are stationary. There is a keen demand for prime dressed pork which is in very short supply; Eggs continue to be in excellent demand at the same rates as last week. Vegetables.— There is an improved demand for spring cabbage .and only limited supplies arei now available. Well packed lines of choice cauliflower are in short supply and realfzing high rates. Swedes are scarce and prices high. Parsnips, table carrots and white turnips are in very short supply. Spring onions, leeks and celery are. in excellent demand. The market :s well supplied with rhubarb and; prices are lower. Only small quantities of Nelson grown peas are coming to hand and prices have advanced. Fruit.'—Strawberries and gooseberries are arriving in small quantities and are keenly enquired for. Dessert and cooking apples are scarce and high prices are ruling. 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.—-Is to Is Gd per bundle. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 5s 5d bus. ten sack lots os 4d. Maize—Local grown. 5s per bushel. Oats.—Feed 4s. Special quotes for large lots. Partridge Peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bu6. Oats.—Crushed 4s 4d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, iresacd and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; 3artons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duiu, 4s 3d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed. —6s 6d pei >ushel. Russian Barley, Cape Seed—4s 6d per bushel.) Barley Feed.—3s 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 Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TOO's, 12s; 50's, 6s fid. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaton Sheaf, £5 10 to £8 pet ton. MolLasses.—ln cask*. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tans, 3s per tin; Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Superphosphates, £8 10s per ton. Candles, 25'g 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is Sd: chests, 1b 6d to Is lOd lb. Potatoes.—£l2 per-ton. New potatoes. 2Jd to 3d per lb. Cabbage.—ss to 6s; medium 3s to 4s per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice 14s to 18s; medium 6s to 10a par 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.— 9d to Is 6d peck. Hutt tomatoes.—9d to Is per lb. Onions, £7 10a per ton. Leek£.—9d to Is bundle. Spinach.—Ss 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—Deasert, choice, 10s to 12s per ease. Apples.—Deesert, choice 10s to 135.. Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 14s per case. Lemons—l6s per case. Rhubarb.—'los to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d

haf case. Dreased Pork.—7o'a to 80's to 7d; 90's to loo's 6*d to 6Jd; baoonata 6d; choppers heavy 4d per lb. Honey.— In 60's 6Jd to 7d. Eggs.— Fresh Is 3d to Is 4d pe* dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d p«r lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb. Linseed Oil Oake—Slabß, Meal and nuts, £11 10b per ton of 2000lBs. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the • beet and cheapest stock food proour-

able. Pc'iltry.—Light table hens 3a to 4s; Heavy bens 4s 6d to 5s 6d< Cockerels <ls <>•■ to 5s 6d; h-iary Cockerels, 6s to 7*; Good heavy ducks 7s 6d to 8s 6d; Indian runners 4s to 5e per pair; Turkey gobblers, la to la Id per lb; hen? lid to Is per lb litf