COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 January 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

• i THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY HEPOIiT. Wellington, This Day'. Supplies of potatoes are limited; thefi'o is an excellent demand and prices have hardened. Wheat is firm at recent rates. There s very little business doing in maize, prices 'remaining tho ame. Oats show a slightly firmer tendency but tthere i 110 business passing. Pollard' and bran show 110 cbage. Theire is a good demand for dressed pork and supplies are short. Eggs aire scarce and firmer in plice. Boailtry is in good demand and fair prices are being realized'. Girean 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 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 it® per tori. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; specMaize.—os 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potat«es.—£l4 per ton. Prime New Potatoes.—2id per lb; Medium lid. 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 8s per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans 2£d 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. Hutfc Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Hot House Tomatoeee.—ls 6d per lb. Nelson Tomatoes.—2os per i-case. French Beans.—lid per lb. Nelson tomatoes.—24s to 25s per case. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oata, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbillß, 4s; Duns, 43 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s fid pel bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—Ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per toe. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts,' £11 10s per ton. IDO's, 12s; 60's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff. —Oaten Sheaf, £5 los 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, 8s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 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 Id per lb. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25'b 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 113-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.— 8s to 10s; medium 6s sack. Onions.—£lß per ton. Jthubarb.— 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.—Dessert, Choice Sturmers. 15s case. Peaches.—ss to 7s. Red Currants.— 9e to 10s per half case. Black Currants.—7s to 9s per i-case Lemons—l6e per case. Gooseberries. —3d per lb. Strawberres.—ls 6d punnet Pears.—Choice Vicars is 6d to 5s 6<J haf case. Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per i-case. Apricots.—los to 12s J-case, others 5s to 6s. Drewed Pork.—7u*s to 90's 6}a to 7d; 90'b to 100' a 61 d to 6|d; baoonere dozen. Beeswax.—la id jf*r lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuta.—Bd per lb.