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Levin Daily Chronicle, 25 January 1917, Page 1

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co-oPKiuTiVK IHSTUHH'TINC »'ANV, Mi'iTKD WEEKLY REPORT. __ 'Wellington, Jan. 19. Supplies of potatoes arc increasing, and consequently prices have weakened. However, there is still an excellent demand. Wheat is firm at recent rates and fai'r "business passing. Maize is slow. Fair business is being done in oats and recent prices being maintained. Pollard and bran show 110 change. There is a fair demand for dressed pork which is now in better supply, prices being slightly lower. Eggs ai'e scarce and remain firm at recent rates. Poultry is in good demand, realising fair prices. Linseed oil cake meal for stock feeding is being used in increasing quantities with excellent results Vegetables.—Green Pea.s are in better demand, and prices have improved. French beans are eagerly bought np. Garbages are lower in price owing to largely increased supplies. Only a few good lines of cauliflowef are offering and these meet with keen competition. There is an excellent- demand for first-class lettuce. There is a fair demand for carrots, turnips and parsnips. Rhubarb is slow of sale. Spring onions, mint and parsley are soiling readily, and thero if? a fair demand for swedes. Fruit.—-Fruit arriving daily from ATo tuck a- and Hawke's Bay is of good quality and meets ready sale. Apricots, peaches and J3urbank plums show an improvement, and prices are good. Only small quantities of greengages are offering and prices are satisfactory. Choice tomatoes are in excellent demand with .good prices. Thero is a l-ceen enquiry for grapes. ' Wheat.—Good whole Fowl, Gs lOd to 7s. Pollard.—£7 i(.*s per tori. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel ; specMaize.—ss 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s Gd per bushel. Prime Potatoes.—'Hutt, 12s per crrt; others 8s to 9s per cwt. Turnips.—"White, 2s fid per sack. Cabbage.—Choice, 4s to ss; medium 3s. Maize 6s 'lOd per bushel Onions.—£ls per ton. Beetroot.—Gs per sack. Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2£d per lb " Broad beans.— s*s to 7s part sack. Carrots.—Best, 7s. Leeks.—ls 3d per bundle. Lettuce.-—3s Gd to 5s per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring Onions.—Bd per bunch. Asparngas.—Gd to lOd bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls Gd per peck. Hutt Hothouse Tomatoes.—lOd lb. Nelson Tomatoes.—los to 12s pel i case.

Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s Gd per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped. sa, others 4s 3d; Cartons and SparrowbiUe, 4s; Dunn, 4s Gd per bushel. ■, Partridge Poas Seed.—6s 6d per bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Meal.—£7 10s per ton. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.--Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TDQ's, 12s; •50's, 6s Gd. Thi» is the beat and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton, Mollasees.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per oewt. Casks extra. Straw.-—£3 108 par ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tins. 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5a per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fre.sh, Is 6d per dozen. Poultry.—Light table bens, 4s : heavy heavy hens, 6s; cockerels from 3s; good, he.ivy ducks 8s; Indian llnnners Gs per pair. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 2a's 16a 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is Gd to la lOd lb. Cauliflower.— 8s to 10s; medium Gs sack. Onions.—£l4 per ton. Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles Turnips.—White, 2s per sack. French Beans.—2}d per lb. Broad Beans 3d per lb. , Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—sb 6d to 7s 6d sack. Nectarines.—ss 6d per -} case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s Gd per i case. Apricots.—7s to 8e per -J case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per J case. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 7d per dozen. Asparagae.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4a cwt. Apples.—Dessqrt, Choice Sturmers, 15s case. Peaches.—3s to 6s. Black Currants.—7s per i case. Grapes—ls 6d per lb.

Lemons— l(Js per c-'i^e. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberivs. —Is GJ punnet Pears.-— Choice Vicars 4b tid to 5s 6d iiaf case. Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per i-case. Apricots.—los to 12s i-casc, others 5s to (3s. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's Gd ; 90*s to 100's Gd; bacouons oil; chippers (hoary) -Id per lb. Honey.—od per lb. liee-an-ax. —i« 6il p«r lb. Fungus od to Gd per lb. Walnuts. —Pd per lb.