COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 January 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

.. —• THE NEW ZEALAND J' A RBlERd' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. Wellington, Des 29. Supplies of new potatoes are limited, the demand is good and prices have hardened. Wheat iliows a slightly weaker tone. Maize and oiats are steady at recent rates and little business doing. Pollaa'd and bran show, no change. There is a good demand for Dressed Pork and the' supply is exceedingly short. (Eggs are scarce and prices remain firm. .All classes of poultry are selling well at satisfactory prices. Vegetables :—Choice cabbage and cauliflower aire in short supply and high pricees are being realised. There is a fair demand for good lettuce. Parsnips and carrots meet keen competitiou but white parsnips are slow Spring Onions and beetroot are selling well. Coincident with the arrival of large qualities of fruit the demand for rliubarb has fallen off considerably. Green peas are in good demand and prices high. Fruit:—Strawberries are arriving in very small parcels and 1 cause keen competition. Cherries and gooseberries are also short and realising liigli prices. Butt and Neslon tomatoes meet good demand at high rates. Peaches, plums and apricots are now reach ing the market in much larger quantities and prices have declined. Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 7s bushel. Pollard.—£7 iOs per ton. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; specMaize.—ss 9d pel* bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. Prime New Potatoes.—2Jd per lb: Medium lid. Turnips.—White,' 2s 6d per sack. Cabbage.—Choice, 6s to 8s; mediun 5s per sack. Maize 6s '10d per bushel Onions.—-£ls per ton. % Beetroot.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2Jd per lb Broad beans.— 5s to 7s part sack, t Carrots.—Best lis. Leeks.—ls 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—2s to 3s per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.—Bd per bunch. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—9d per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck Hutt Hot House Toniatoees.—ls 6c per lb. Nelson Tomatoes.—2os per J-case. o French Beans.—lid per lb. Nelson tomatoes.—24s to 25s pel case. Parsnips.—los pe* sack. Asparagus.—, 6d-to '9d bundle. Oats. 4s 6d per bushel. ' Seed Oata, Australian. —Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilfe, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss pei bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 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, 12s; 60's, 6s 6d. Thia is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. MoUesses.—ln cask*. Splendid stock food. 28e per Oowt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quickli.ine. —In 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17e per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 6d pei- dozen. Poultry. — Light Table Hens, ss; Heavy Hens, 6s; Cockerels, 6s; heavy Cockerels, 7s to 8e; Good heavy Ducks 9s; Indian Runners, 7s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, le 8d; chests, 1b 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.— 8s to 10s; medium 6s sack. Onions.—£lß per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips.—2e per sack. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—-5b 6d to 7s 6d sack. ~ Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dessejrt, Choice Sturmers, 15s case.