COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 January 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

* THE NEW ZEALAND I'AKMERri' CX>-OPEEATIVE 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 and bran 6how 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 are in short supply and high pricee® are being realised. There ie a fair demand for good lettuce. Parsnips and carrots meet keen competition but white parsnips are slow Spring Onions and beetroot are selling well. Coincident with the arrival of large quatities 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 cause keen competition. Cherries and gooseberries are also short and realising high prices. Hutt 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 lbs per tori. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; specMaize.—ss 9d per buehel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potataes.—£l4 per ton. Prime New Potatoes.—2sd per lb; Medium ljd. Turnips.—White, 2s 6d per sack. Cabbage.—Choice, 6s to 8s • medium 5s per sack. Maize 6s lOd 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. 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 Tomatoees.—ls 6d per lb. Nelson Tomatoes.—-20s per i-caso. French Beans.—lsd per lb. Nelson tomatoes.—24s to 25s per case. " Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbiljß, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed;—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel.

Barley Feed.—4b 6d per bushel. . Barley ineal.—£B 10s per toD. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. IDO's, 12b; SO'Sj 6& 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. MolLasees.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tins, 3>s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per SO, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.-—Fresh, Is 6d per dozen. Poultry.— Light Table Hens, ss; Heavy Hens, 6s; Cockerels, 0s; 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 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. Swedc6—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dessert, Choice Sturmers. 15s case. Peaches.-?—ss to 7s. Red Currants.— 9s to 10s per half case. Black Currants.—7s to 9b per J-case Lemons—l6e per case. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberres.—ls 6d punnet * Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6<J haf case. Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per 4-case. Apricots.—los to 12s i-case, others 5s to 6s. Dressed Pork.—7u'a to 90's 6ia to 7d; 90'b to 100's 6|d to 6|d; baooners dozen. Beeswax.—lq &d per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts—od per lb.