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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 February 1917, Page 2

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inn: new zkai and i-ammk.!:.-00-OPlillA'lJ.vK DIM lti I*l7l- - COMPANY, UMjTKD. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, Jan. 19. Supplies of potatoes aro increasing, and consequently prices have weakened. However, there is still an excellent demand. Wheat is firm at recent rates and fair business passing. Maizo is slow. Fair business is being done in oats and recent priccs being maintained. Pollard and brau show no change. There is a fair demand for dressed pork which is now in better supply, prices being slightly lower. Eggs are scarce and remain firm at recent rates. Poultry is in good demand, realising fair prices. Linseed oil cake meal for stock feeding I is being used in increasing quantities with excellent results Vegetables.—Green pea& are in better demand, and prices have improved. French beans are eagerly bought up. Cabbages are lower in price owing to largely, increased supplies. Only a few good lines of cauliflower 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 selling readily, and there is a fair demand for swedes. Fruit.—Fruit arriving daily from .Motueka and Hawke's Bay is of good quality and meets ready sale. Apricots, ' peaches and Burbonk plums show an improvement, and prices are good. Only small quantities of greengages are offering and prices a;re satisfactory. Choice tomatoes are in excellent demand with good prices. There is a keen enquiry for grapes.

Wheat.—Good whole Fowl) Gs lOd to 7s. Pollard.—£7 iOs per ton. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; speoMaize.—ss 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per busliel. Prime Potatoes.—Hutt, 12s per cwt; others 8s to 9s per cwt. Turnips.—White, 2s fid per sack. Cabbage.—Choice, 4s to 5s ;■ medium 3s. Onions.—£ls per ton. Beetroot.—6s per sack. Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2£d per lb Broad beans.— 5s to 7s part sack. Carrots.—Best, 7s. Leeks.—ls 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—3s Gd to 5s per case. Pumpkins.—l4s "per sack. Spring Ojiions.—Bd per bunch. Asparngas.— Gd to lOd bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 6d per peck. Hutt Hothouse Tomatoes.—lOd lb. Nelson Tomatoes.—los to 12s per I case. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— ftd to 9d bundle. On ts. —Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, • •refised and clipped. s«s. others 4s 3d; Oart-ons and Sparrowbills. 4s; Duna, 4a (5-1 per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.--6s 6d pci 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. 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. Mollnsses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food. 28s per scwt. Casks , extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tins, 3s pe>- tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hund red; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is Gd per dozen. Poultry.—Light table hens, 4s; heavy heavy hens, 6s; cockerels from 3s. good heavy d-uclra 8s; Indian Runners 65 per pair. Superphosphates, £8 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 10b; medium 6s sack. Onions.—£l4 per ton. Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles. Turnips.—White, 2s per sack. French Beans.—2Jd per lb. Broad Beaiis 3d per lb. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—ss Gd to 7s 6d.sack. Nectarines.—ss Gd per 4 case. Clierry Plums.-—ls 6d to 2s 6d per i case. Apricots.—7s to 8s per i case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per J case. Asparngas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dessert, Choice Stunners, Us case. Peaches.—3s to 6s. Black Currants.—7s per J case. Grapes.—ls Gd per lb.