COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 December 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

TJiK NKW ZEALAND KAiIMERS' 00-OP JiH, AT £ V ifi DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMJTRD. ■vvkeki v aKT'Oirr Wellington, Dec, 1. There are now very few old potatoes arriving. New potatoes are coming in more pleiitifullj and realize satisfactory prices. The price of wheat still shows a tendency to advance. Maize is firm at recent rates. Oats show a isWglitly weaker tendency and fair business doing. Pollard and bnan are steady. Dreseed pork is in Mr 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. Vegetahles : —Choice cabbage and cauliflower show an improved demand and satisfactory prices are now being realised. Large quantities of lettuce have been 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 good. Choice Nelson green peas are keenly bought up but inferior lines are slow of sale. Fruit:—Strawberries. gooseberries and passions are arriving in small parcels and cause keen competition. Larger quantities of local cherries arc now coming to hand andi meet with ready sale. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Wheat.—Gofocl wliolei fowl, 7s pel bushel. Maize.—ss lOd per bushel. Oats.— Feed 4s par hushel; special quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s Gd pel bushel. Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. New Potatoes.—lid to 2d per lb. Cabbage.—Choice 5s to 6s; mediun os to 6s sack. Maize Gs '10d per bushel Onions.—£2o per ton. Beetroot.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack Sarrots.—Best, '10s. Leeks.—ls 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—2s Gd to 3s 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 le 10< per peck. Hutt Green Peas.— Is lOd to 2s pe. peck. Hutt hothouse tomatoes.— le 2c per lb. Tomatoes.—ls to Is Id per lb. Parsnips.—l6s per sack. Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle Oats. 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duns, 4e 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley, Cape Seed—4s Bd pei bushel. Barley Feed.—3a 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per ton. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. IDO's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the beet and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oate Sheaf, £5 15s to £k per ton. Mollosses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tana, 8s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh Is S<l Per doxen. Poultry.—Light Table Hens, 6s; ■Heavy Hens 8s; Cockerels 6s to 7s; heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s Good heavy Ducks 9s; Indian JR-unners 7r 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, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.—Choice 8s to 10s; medium 5s 6d sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Rhubarb.— 4b to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips.—-White 3s 6d to 4s 6d pei sack. Spring onions.—9d to Is 2d bumon. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagaß.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedles—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dessert, choice Sturmere 13s per case. Lemons—l6s per c<i*e. Gooseberries. —3id per lb. Strawberries. —Is lOd to 2s per lb. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4b 6d to 5s 6c haf case. Cherries. —Local 30s; choice 40s per crate. 6d: choppers heavy 4d per lb. Dressed Pork.—7o*B to Ws 6Ja tc 7d; 90's to 100's 6|d to 6Jd; baooneri dozen. Beeswax Is 6d par lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts—9d par lb.