COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 December 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

• —: THE NEW ZEALAND I-'AUMJSRS' GO-OP Jfiß AT IVE DISTRIBUTING (X>MI'ANY, LIMITED. WEEEI I tHCPOHT. Wellington, Doc. 8. Supplies of old potatoes have now iractically ceased; new potatoes ate ;oming in more freely and the demand jeing good excellent prices are mainlined. Wheat is still very firm at recent rates. Good business is jeing done in maize which shows ; slightly weaker tendency. Oats av( firm, hut IfEtle business is doing. Pollard and bran are steady. Thero is a fair demand for dressed pork whicli is in short supply, prices showing a decline owing to the warmer weather. Eggs are in good demand, and show a slight advanco in price. Honey is dull of sale. Thero is an excellent demand foT poultry and excellent prices are being; 'realized. Supplies of choice cabbage have fallen off somewhat and high prices arc ruling. Choice cauliflower are in good demand and bring fair prices. Lettuce, shows much improved enquiry and higher rates are ruling. Parsnips, carrots, turnips and beetroot are in short supply and meet keen competition. Spring onions and leeks aro selling are selling freely. Present supplies of rhubarb are of excellent quality and although plentiful, bring good prices. Larger supplies of green peas have been available, and prices have declined. Strawberries, passions and gooseberries a're arriving in fair quantities and are readily bought up at satisfactory rates. Loval cherries are more plentiful and meet with o;ood demand Hutt hot-house tomatoes arc arriving in small parcels and are bringing satisfactory prices. Pollard.—£7 lbs per ton. Wheat.—Good whole Fowl, 7s per bushel. Maize.—ss 6d to 6s per bushel". Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; special quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s Gd per bushel. Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. New Potatoes. —2s per lb. Cabbage.— l 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 Carrots.—Best, 10s Leeks.—ls 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—ss 6d to 6s 6d per case. Spinach.—ss per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.— 9d to Is bunch. Asparagus.'—4d to 9d bundle. Nelson green peas.—ls to Is 3d. Hutt green peae.— Is 6d peck. Hutt hot-house tomatoes — Is "Id per lb. Tomatoes.—ls to* Is Id per lb. Parsnips.—l6s per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian. —Algerian, dressed and clipped, 5», others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duns, 4s Gd per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—3e 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. 100's, 12e; 50's, 6a fid. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oate Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Mollasses. —In casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tons, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh Is 6d per dozen. Poultry.—Light Table Hens, 6s; Heavy Hens 8s; Cockerels 6s to 7s; heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s Good heavy Bucks 9s; Indian Runners 7r per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id "per lb; Hens lid to Us per lb live weight. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, la 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.—Choice, 10s; medium, sej 6d per sack. Onions. —£18 per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips.—i White, 5s per sack. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedies—3a to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dessert, choice Stunners 13s per case. Lemons—l6s per ca*e. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberries.—ls 6d to 16 8d per punnet. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6<3 haf case. Cherries.—Local 35s per crate. 6d: choppers heavy 4d per lb. . Dresseed Pork.—Vo's to 80' a 6Ja to | 7d; 90'b to 100' a 6fd to 6|d; baooners dozen. Beeswax.—la 8d p«r lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb. A* UNNECESSARY EXPENSE There Is no expense which is such a drain as successive doctors bills. Expenses of this kind can be avoided by a little forethought. Ailments suoh as cramp, colic and diarrhoea can be promptly relieved by Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy. The doctor has often been calledi to treat these ailments when a couple of doses oi Chamberlain's Colio and Diarrheoa Remedy was all that was needed. It is economy to keep Chamberlain's Oolic and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house, r It will save expanse and suffering. g Sold everywhere. Advt