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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 December 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

, 9 TUENEW ZEALAND FAitM£R&' 00-OPER ATI VE DISTRIBUTING OOMPAN I', LIMITED. "WiSEKI I aH'-ORT Wellington j Nov. 24. Old. potatoes are firm in price, but transactions are small; moist supplies held are Australian grown. N T ew potatoes have returned to normal during the last few d'ays. Values should however decline as the new season s supples arrive. Tliere has been a very sharp advance in wheat which lias risen (id per bushel during the last fortnight. Maize also is higher, doubtless in sympathy with wheat Oats are firm but very little business passing. Pollard and bran are steady. On account of the warmer weather dressed pork is not in such keen demand, and prices show a declining tendency. Eggs are firm. Honey is dull of sale. Poultry is in exceptional demand and fancy prices are being realized. Vegetables.—Choice spring cabbage still continues to arrive in large quantities and values are much lower. Large consignments of cauliflowers are coming into the market, and low prices are obtained. Choice lettuce is realizing high prices. Goodi table carrots and parsnips are in excellent demand. Celery, spring onions and ileeks cause keen competition. Rhubarb is more plentiful and prices are weaker. Choice green peas fetch high prices but inferior lines are slow of sale. .Fruit.—Strawberries, passions and gooseberries -are arriving in largei quantities and realize satisfactory prices. Local cherries are arriving ir larger quantities and meet with gem demand. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Wheat. —Good whole fowl 6s 6d bus Maize.—ss lOd per bushel. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s Cd pel bushel. Potatoes. —£14 per ton. New potatoes.—2d to 2Jd. Cabbage.—Choice 5e to 7s; medium 4s per sack. Maize 6s '10d per bushel Onions.—£l3 per ton. Carrots.—los per sack. Leeks.—ls 3d peir bundle. Lettuce.—3s to 6s per case. Spinach.—4s 6d case. Pumpkins.— 12s per sack. Spring onions.— 9d to Is bunch. Asparagus.—4d to 9d bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—ls to Is 6d. Hutt Green Peas.— Is lOd to 2s pel peck. Hutt hothouse tomatoes. — Is 2c per lb. Tomatoes.—ls to Is Id per lb. Parsnips.—l2s per sack. Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Dun*, 4a 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley, Cape Seed—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B IDs per ton. Bran.—£4 16 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. IDO's, 12s; 50's. 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 per ton. Mollaeses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food. 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 28lb air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hunired; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251h hag. Eggs.—Fresh Is od per doxen. Poultry.—Light table hens, ss; heavy hens, 7s; Cockerels, 6s o 7s; heavy cockerels, 7e to 8s; good heavy ducks, Ds; Indiian Runners, 7s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; hens, lid to Is per lb live weight. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, 1b 8d: :hests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower. —Choice 14b to 18s; melium 6s to 10s peer sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. TurnAps.—White 3s 6di to 4s 6d per sack. Spring onions.—9d to Is 2d buncn. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedies—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dessert, choice Sturm3rs 13s per case. Lemons—l6s per case. Gooseberries.— 2d to 2Jd. Strawberries. — Is 3d to Is 7d. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Cherries.- —Local Is to Is 2d. id: choppers heavy 4d per lb. Dressed Pork.—Vu's to AO's 6|a to Td; 90's to 100's 6Jd to 6i*i; baoonere iozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts-—9d per lb.