COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THf<; N K\V ZEALAND I'ARMERS' (XM>1 J EHATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. TTEEKI \ REPORT. I Wellington, Dec. 8. Supplies of old potatoes liave now >ractically ceased; new potatoes aio joining in more freely and the demand jeing good excellent prices are mainlined. Wheat ie still very firm at recent rates. Good business is seing clone in maize which shows slightly weaker tendency. Oats !rr< arm, 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 warmer weather. Eggs are in good demand, and show a slight advance in price. Honey is dull of sal©. 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 aire arriving in fair quantities and are readily bought up at satisfactory rates. Loval cherries are more plentiful and meet with good demand Hutt hot-honse tomatoes are arriving in small parcels and are bringing satisfactory prices. Pollard.—£7 lbs per ton. Wheat.—Good whole Fowl, 7e 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.—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 cafie. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.— 9d to Is bunch. Aspairagus.'—4d to 9d bundle. Nelson green peas.—ls to Is 3d. Hutfc green peas.— lfi 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 4e Gd per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian. —Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 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. Barlov meal.— £3 10s per ton. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs. Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TOO's. 12e; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oate Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Mollaeses. —In casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt, Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b 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 7e; 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 'J.s per lb live weight. Superphosphates, JBB 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to la lOd lb. Cauliflower.—Choice, 10s; medium, sa| 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. Swediee—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dessert, choice Stunners 13s per case. Lemons —16s per on*e. Gooseberries. —3d per lb. Strawberries.—ls 6d to Is 8d per punnet. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Cherries.—Local 35s per crate. 6d: choppers heavy 4d per lb. Dressed Pork.—7CS to 90's 6Ja to 7d; 90's to 100's 6}d to 6£di; baooners dozen. Beeswax—ls 6d par lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. * Walnuts—9d per lb.