COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 January 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

YHK-\iijYS i 1 CO OPER.v'l'/. >"ii Dl.~lti.lfr. lTNG COMPANY, LliH'i'i'D. WEEKLY REPORT. . Wellington, Jan. 12. Potatoes are now cowing in more freely and there is an excellent demand and satisfactory prices are realised. Wheat is stationary at recent irates and little business doing. Maize is slow of sale. -Fair business is being done in oats and owing to 1 improved demand prices show a little stronger tendency. Pollard and bran are firm at recent rates. There is a good demand for dressed pork and supplies are short. Eggs are scarce and show a slight advance in price. Poultry is lin good demand and realising fair prices. Vegetables.—Choice samples of green peas and French beans arc in excellent demand and on account of tlie small quantity offering high rates are ruling Choice cabbage is in good denm.nd at satisfactory prices. Only a ta}Y lines of cauliflowers have been offered and this meets with ready sale. Lettuce a»re realising fair prices. Parsnips, turnips and carrots are enquired for and supplies meet, ready sale. Spring onions are selling well and there is an exc-ellet demand for beetroot. Fruit.—Large shipments of fruit are arriving daily and the demand is good for choice lines. Plums however, are selliing at low rates. Prices for raspberries and black currants show a distinct improvement. Nelson and local hothouse grown tomatoes .are now coming freely and values are lower. Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 7s bushel. . Pollard.—£7 Its per ton. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; spec-Maize.—-os 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. Prime New Potatoes.—£ls per ton. Medium £11 per ton. Turnips.—White, 2s fid per sack. Cabbage.—Choice 5s to6s jmedium 4s per sack. Maize Gs '10d per bushel Onions.—£ls per ton. Beetroot.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2£d per lb Broad beans.— 5s to 7s part sack. Carrots.—Best 9s. 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.—ls per peck. : Hutt Green Peas.'—ls 4d per peek. Hutt Hot House Tomatoeefi.—ls 6d per lb. Js r elson Tomatoes.—lOis to '12s per -l-case. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gortons and Sparrowbilfc, 4s; Dune, 4s 6d per-bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed.—Bs 6d pet

bushel. 1 Russian Barley Gape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Bailey meal.—£B 10s per toD. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TOO's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. MoLLosees.—ln casks. Splendid 6tock food,' 28a per ocwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tiftht tins, 3s 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, £8 10s per ton. Candles, 25' a 16a 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.— 83 to 10b; medium 6s sack. Onions.—£l4 per ton. Rhubarb 4s to 7a dozen bundles. Turnips.—'White, 5s per sack. French Beans.—2d per lb. Broad Beans 3d per lb. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. jNectavines.—ss to 6s. Cherry Plums.—2s 6d to 3s 6d per half case. •Apricots. 7s to 8s per half case. - Plums—Burbank, 3s to ss. 'FJggs.—Fresh, Is 7d per dozen. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—'l>es6ejrt-, -Choice Stunners, 15s case. Peaches.—2s 6d to ss. ■ , Black Currants.— 7s to 8s per half case. Black Currants.—7s to 9s per 4-case Lemons—l6s per caee. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. ' Strawberres.—lb 6d punnet Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Cherry Plums.— 2s to 3s per i-case. Apricots.—los to 12s i-case, others 5s to 6s. Dreased Pork.—Vo'a to AO's 6Ja to 7d; 90'b to 100's 6jfd to 6|<l; bacon era dozen. Beeswax—ls fid p«r. lb. - Fungus 5d to 6d per, lb. Walnuts—9d per lb.