COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 January 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

IHR NEW ZEALAND FAKMMvp' CO-OPJER ATI VE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. Wellington, Des 29. Supplies of new potatoes are limited, the demand is good and prices have hardened. Wheat shows a slightly weaker tone. Maize and oats are steady at recent rates and little business doing. Pollard ancl bran show no change. There is a good demand for Dressed Pork and the supply is exceedingly short. Eggs are scarce and prices rdliain firm. All classes of poultry arei; selling well at satisfactory prices. Vegetables:—Choice cabbage and cauliflower in . short supply and high pricees are being 'realised. There is a fair demand for good lettuce. Parsnips and carrots meet keen competition but iwhite parsnips are slow Spring Onions and beetroot are''selling well. Coincident with the arrival of large qualities of fruit the demand for rhubarb 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 high prices. Hutt and Xes'lon 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 lbs per ton. Oats.— Feed 4s per busliel ; specMaize.—os 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. Prime New Potatoes. per lb; . Medium lid; Turnips.—White, 2s 6d per sack. Cabbage.—Choice, Gs to 8s • medium 5s per sack. , ' Maize Gs lOd per bushelOnions.—£ls per ton.. Beetroot-.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2jd per lb Broad beans.— 5s to 7s part sack. 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 10d bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—9d per\ peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Hot House Tomatoees.—ls 6d per lb. -Nelson Tomatoes.—2os per J-case. French Beans.—ljd per lb. Nelson tomatoes.—24s to 2os per case. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dreesed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbillß, 4s; Dune, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.— 6s 6d pei bushel. » Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per toD. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. XOO's, 12a; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Mollfl6Bes.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28« per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10a per £on. Quicklime.—ln 28lb air-tight tins, 3s pe>- tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5a per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 6d per dozen. v Poultry.— Light Table Hens, ss; Heavy Hens, 6s; Cockerels, 6s; heavy Cockerels, 7s to 8s; Good heavy Ducks ' 9s; Indian Runners, 7s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per ,Ib. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.— 8s to 10s; medium 6s sack. Onions.—£lß per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips.—2s per sack. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack, Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Desseirt, Choice Sturmers. 15s case. Peaches.—ss to 7s. Red Currants.— 96 to 10s per half case. Black Currants.—7s to 9s per 4-case Lemons—l6s par cn*e. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawborres.—ls 6d punnet Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per )b. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s por 4-casc. Apricots.—los to 12s i-ease, others 5s to 6s. ■ . Dressed Pork.—7u's to 90's 6Ja to 7d; 90's to 100' a 6(d to 6|di; baooners dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per Lb. . Walnuts.—fid fwr lb.