COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 January 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' " CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, This Day. Supplies of potatoes are limited; there is 'an excellent demand and prices have hardened. Wheat is firm at recent rates. There s very little business doing in maize, prices remaining the r ame. Oats show a slightly firmer - tendency but tiiere i no business passing. Pollard and bran show 110 cbage. There is a good demand for dressed pork and supplies are short. Eggs axe soarc© and firmer in plice. Poultry is in good demand and fair prices are being realized l .

Green peas are now in better demand and prices have risen. Regular supplies of French beans are coming| 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 fef dry weather root vegetables are backward and choice lines arriving meet with good sale® at fair prices. Lettuce is plentiful and price lower. There is a fair demand for spring onions, parsley 1 and minit.

Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 7s bus hel.

Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; specMaize.—ss 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for largo lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel.

Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. Prime New Potatoes.—2£d per lb; Medium ljd.

Turnips.—"White, 2s 6d per sack. Cabbage.—Choice, 6s to 8s • medium os 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 8s per case. Pumpkins 14s 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.—2os per J-ca.se. French Beans.—ljd per lb. Nelson tomatoes.—24s to 25b 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 Sparrowbilis, 4s; Dana, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed.~6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Oape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—4a 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, 12e; 50's, 6s 6d, This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. MoUasses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 23s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b tons, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per SO, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, la 6d per dozen. 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 ld_per lb. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 19-poiind tins, Is 3d; 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.—2e per sack. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagae.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4a cwt. Apples.—Dessqrt, Choice Sturmers. 15s case. Peaches.—ss to 7s. Red Currants.— 9s to 10s per half case. Black Currants.—7s to 9s per J-case Lemons—l6s per ewe. 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 £-case. Apricots.—los to 12s i-oase, others 5s to 6e. Dressed Pork.—7o*B to 90'« 6Ja to 7d; 90'b to loo's 6|d to 6|d; baronets dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d p»r lb. ' Fungus 5d to 6d per Lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb.