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Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 December 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

9 TriK NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. •WEEKJ I- r?KT } OUT Wellington, Dcc. 8. Supplies of old potatoes have now practically ceased; new potatoes are coming in more trccly and tlio-demand being good excellent prices arc maintained. Wheat is still very iirm at recent rates. Good business is being done in maize which shows slightly weaker tendency. Oats a.-; firm, but 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 warmer 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 somewhat 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 are arriving in fair quantities and are readily bought 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 ilrs per toll. Wheat. —Good whole Fowl, 7s per bushel. Maize.—ss 6d to 6s per bushel. Oats.— Feed -Is per bushel ; special quotations for lame lots. Partridge peas.-—Seed 7s Gd per bushel. Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. New Potatoes.—2s per lb. Cabbage.—Choice 5s to 6s; mediun 5s to Cs sack. Maize-'is 1M per bushel Onions.-—£2o per ton. Beetroot.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack Carrots.—Best, 10s Leeks. —is 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—as 6d to 6s fid por case. Spinach.—os per case. Pumpkins. — 14s per sack. Spring onions.— Od to Is bunch. Aspn'ragusvj-4d to 9d bundle. Nelson green pens.—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 Od bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. _ Seed Oats. Australian. —Algerian, dressed and clipped. ss, otbprs 4s 3d ; Gar tons and Sparrowbilfe, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—Bs fid pei bushel. Russian Barley Capo Seed.—ss per bushel. - Bnr':?y Feed.—3e 6d per bushel. Barley meal. —£R 10s per ton. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake. - Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TOO's, 12s; 50's. 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oate Sheaf, £5 15s to £0 per ton. Mollasses.—Tn cask*. Splendid stock food. 28s per oewt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 28lb 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, JK 10s per ton. oandle6, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Ts lOd lb. Cauliflower.—Choice, 10s; medium, Bd 6d per sack. Onions.—£lß per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips.—White, 5s per sack. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedies—3s to 4s cwt. Apples. —Dessert, Choice Stunners 13s per case. Lemons—los per ease. Gooseberries. —3d per lb. Strawberries.—ls 6d to le 8d per punnet. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6« haf case. Cherries.—Local 35s per crate, fid: choppers heary Id per lb. Dressed Pork.—Vii'b to 80's 6|ct tc 7d; 90's to 100's 6id to 6|d; baoonevi dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d p»r lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. i Walnuts—9d per lb.