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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 December 1916, Page 1

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-e THE N :"'jW ZKILAXD OU-i>l'hLLAnVi' DlaTil IBo'lI\ Ci '.OM !VvN V, LLMIT&D. T/iSEh'l 1 rfK"*O«T Wellington, Dec, 1. There are now very few old pota,oes arriving. Now potatoes ire coining in more' plentifullj uul realize satisfactory prices. The [jrico of wheat still shows a tendency to advance. Maizo is firm at recent rates. Oats show a slfghtly weaker :endicncy and fair business doing. Pollard and bnan are steady. Dressed pork is in f;r;:r demand and prices slightly lower. Eggs are scarce and price remains firm. Honey is slow of sale. Poultry is in exceedingly good demand and realising fancy prices. Vegetables:—Choice cabbage and cauliflower show an improved! demand and satisfactory prices are now being realised. Largo quantities of lettuce have fie en coming in and prices are much lower. Carrots, parsnips and white turnips are in short supply and bring high prices. Spring onions, leeks and beetroot meet with ready sale. Rhubarb is plentiful and the demand gond. Choice Nelson green peas are keenly bought up but inferior lines are slow of sale. Fruit:—Strawberries. gooseberries and passions arei arriving in small parcels and cause keen competition. Larger quantities of local cherries are now coming to liand and meet with ready sale. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Wheat. —Good whole! fowl, 7s per bushel. Maize.—ss lOd per bushel. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; special quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s Cd per bushel. Potatoes.— £14 per ton. New Potatoes.—lAd to 2d per lb. Cabbage.-—Choice 5s to 6s; medium 5s to 6s sack. Maize 6s '10d per bushel Onions.—£2o per ton. Beetroot.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack -in r rots.—Best, '10s. Leeks.—ls 3d P«r bundle. Lettuce.—2s Gd to Ss 6d per case Spinach.—ss per case Pumpkins.— 12s per sack. Spring onions.— 9d to Is bunch. Asparagus.—4d to 9d bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—ls 4d to Is lOcl per peek. Hutt Green Peas.— Is lOd to 2s per peck. Hutt hothouse tomatoes.— lis 2d per lb. Tomatoes.—ls to Is Id per lb. Parsnips.—l6s per sack. Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed aDd clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilfe, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei buiihel. Russian Barley, Cape Seed—4s Sd per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B TOs per ton. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. XOO's, 1.25; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oate Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Mollasses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.'—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-ti&ht tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per SO, and 5s per 251b Bag. Eggs.—Fresh Is od Per doxen. Poultry.—Light Table Hens, 6s ; Heavy Heus 8s; Cockerels 6s to 7s ; heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s Good heavy Ducks 9s; Indian Hunners 7r per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id pei- 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, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflowers—Choice 8s to 10s; medium 5s 6d sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips "Whitie 3s 6di to 4s 6d per sack. Spring onions.—9d to Is 2d bun en. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagae.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedies—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dissert, choice Stunners 13s per caso. Lemons—l6s per c.nze. Gooseberries. —34d per lb. Strawberries.—ls lOd to 2s per lb. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Cherries.—Local 30s; choice 40s per crstei ' 't %'•? 6d: choppers heavy 4d per lb. Dreased Pork.—7u"s to 90's 6Ja to 7d: 90's to 100's 6|d to 6Jdi; baooners dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d par lb. Fungus 5d to 6d' per lb. Walnuts—9d per lb.