COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 December 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

e THIS NE\V*'ZEALA\D FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEK) 5 rt"E?ORT Wellington, Dec. 8. Supplies of old potatoes have now practically ceased; new potatoes are coming in more freely and the demand being good excellent prices are maintained. Wlieat is still very firm at recent rates. Good business is being done in maize which shows ; slightly weaker tendency. Oats an firm, hut little business is doing. Pollard and bran are steady. There is a fair demand for dressed pork which is in short supply, prices showing a decline owing to the wanner weather. Eggs are in good demand, and show a slight advance in price. Honey is dull of sale. There is an excellent demand for poultry and excellent prices are being; 'realized. Supplies, of choice cabbage have fallen off sojnewhat and high prices are 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 are 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 aire arriving in fair quantities and are readily boftght up at satisfactory rates. Loval cherries are more plentiful and meet with good demand Hutt hot-house tomatoes are arriving in small parcels and are bringing satisfactory prices. Pollard.—£7 iOs 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 6d pel bushel. Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. New Potatoes.—2s per lb. Cabbage.—Choice 5s to 6s; mediuir 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 peas.— 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, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbillß, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per toD. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cako.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6s fid. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oate Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. MoUasses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28e per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 231b air-tight tins, 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 Ducks 9s; Indian Runners 7r per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; Hens lid to 'Is per lb live weight. Superphosphates, JS6 10s per ton. Candlee, 23' a 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, is 8d: chests, Is 6d to la lOd lb. Cauliflower.—Choice, 10s; medium, saj 6d per sack. Onions.—£lß per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips.—iWMte, 5s per sack. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedies—3s to 4a c'wt. Apples.—Dessert, choice Sturmera 13s per case. lemons —16s per cn*e. Gooseberries.—3d -per lb. Strawberries.—ls 6d_ to Ib 8d per punnet. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6<J haf case. Cherries.—Local 35s per crate, fid: choppers heavy 4d per lb. Dressed Pork.—7(l*3 to 00' a 6id to 7d; 90's to 100*s to S|di; baconers dozen. Beeswax.—ls id par Ib. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb.