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Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 January 1917, Page 3

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THE N RW ZEALAND FAIOHCR.S' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTrNO COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, This Day.' Supplies of potatoes are limited; thotre is an excellent demand and prices Ji-ave hardened. Wheat is linn at recent rates. There s very little business doing in maize, prices remaining the ame. Oats show a- slightly firmer tendency but there' i 110 business passing. Pollard and bran show no ilia.ge. Thc-ire is a good demand for Pressed pork and supplies arc short. Eggs are scarce and firmer in plice. Poiiltry is in good demand and fair prices are being realized. G'reeu peas are now in better demand and prices have risen. Regular supplies of French beans are coining to hand and meet with keen competition. Cabbage i coming in more, plentifully and prices are lower. ] Choice cauliflower is still scarce and prime lines aire (realizing high prices. On account of the long spell of dry weather root vegetables are backward and choice lines arriving meet- with good sales at fair prices. Lettuce is plentiful and price lower. There is a fair demand for spring onions, parsley and mint. Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 7s bushel. Pollard.—£7 lbs per tori. Oats.— Feed -Is per bushel; spec-Maize.--os 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for lai'ge lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—£ll per ton. Prime New Potatoes.—2Ad per lb; Medium ljd. Turnips.—White, 2s (3d per sack. Cabbage.— l Choice, Gs to 8s- medium 5s per sack. Maize Cs lOd per bushel Onions.—£ls per ton. Beetroot.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2-Jcl per lb Broad beans.— 5s to 7s part sack. Carrots.—Best lis. -Leeks. —is 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—2s to 3s per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.—Bd per bunch. Asparaga-s.—Gd to lOd bundle. ' Nelson Green Peas.—9d per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Ilot House Tomatoees. —Is (id per lb.