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Levin Daily Chronicle, 22 February 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE X E\V ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-< >PERATIVE DISTRIBUTION t'J COMPANY, LIMITraO. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, Feb. 16

Supplies of potatoes are still short of requirements and consequently prices continue very firm. The wheat market is unsettled, prices quoted in the South being equal to value fixed -by the Government. Maize is slow of sale. Fair business is being done in oats ?n i prices have hardened. Bran lias advanced and pollard is very firm at recent. rates. There is a good demand for dressed pork recent rates being maintained. Eggs are very scarce and the wholesale prices has advanced another penny per dozen since last week Poultry is scarce and in good demand.

Vegetables:—Green peas are in good demand and the best lines cause keen competition. Cauliflowers are in short supply and realise good prices. The demand for cabbage has improved and prices anr higher. French beans are eagerly bought up at high rates. Choice lettuce are selling well but inferior lines ifira hard to. quit. Turnips and parsnips are bringing fair prices. Spring onions are in good demand. There is a good enquiry for swedes. Marrows are (n keen demand.

Fruit—Choice dessert apples are in excellent demand, while prices for cookers are fair. Nectarines and peaches arc selling well at satisfactory rates. Aprliitvts arid .greengages are scarce and meet excellent demand. Tomatoes »h<s'w a sharp advance, and high prices are being realised. Grapes are in fair demand.

Vegetables. Wheat. -Good whole Fowl, 6s lOd to 7s. Pollard.—£7 Rjs per ton. Oats.'— Feed 4s per bushel; EpecPartridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes—Prime Hutt 14s per cwt, others 9s per cwt. White Turnips—3s per sk. Cabbage—Choice. 3s per sk. Beetroot—4d per hunch. Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans -2}d per lh. Broad beans.- 5s to 7s part sack Ciarrots -15est, 5s per sk. Leeks.- Is 3d per bundle. Lettuce—Choice, 3s to 8s per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring Onions—ls per bundle. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Green Peas Is 9d peir peck. Hutt Tomatoes—ss 6d to 6s 6d per half case.

Nelson Tomatoes.—os per half case. Fruit. Parsnips—9p peir s3r. 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 ; Gartons and Sp&rrowbilij, 4s; Duns, 4f= 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Meal.—£7 10s ner ton. Poultry.—Light Table Hens, 3s 6d ; Heavy Hens ss; Cockerels from 3s: heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s; Good heavy Ducks 7s; Indian ■Runners, 6s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; Hens, lid to Is per lb live weight. Bran—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TOO's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. Thia is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Mollaeees.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.— £3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and fm per 251b Bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 9d per dozen. Superphosphates, S3 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—Choice, 12s per sk. Onions—Local, £8 per ton. Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles Turnips.—White, 2s per sack. French Beans.—4s per part sack. Broad Beans 3d per lb. Green Peas—2s per peck. Marrows—os per sk. Neotarines—ss 6d per J case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s 6d per i case.

Apricots—Choice dessert, l'ls per J case.

Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per J case.

Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle Swedes—2b per cwt. Apples.—los per full case, mednin 6s per full case. Apples.—Cooking 5s per fu-1 case. Peaches.— Choice dessert 6s per half case. Burbank Plums.'—3s to 4s per J case. Greengages— 7s per half case Grapes.—lOd per lb. Nectarines os 6d per half case; medium 4s per half ease. . V urns.—Burbank 4s per half case. Plums.—Blue Diamond 5s per $-case ; others 3s 6d per 1-case. Raspberries.—7e per bucket. Lemons—l6s per cane. per lh. Strawberres.—ls 6d punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. t!SSS*~ ■

Pears.—Local W.B.C. choice dessert up, Gd per half case; medium 4s Gd per lialf case. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Eggs.—'Fresh, Is 9d per dozen. .blackberries.—3d per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per $-case. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's Gd; 90's to 100's 6d; baconens sd; choppers (heavy) 4d per lb. Honey.—sd per lb. Beeswax.—ls 3d per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—Bd per lb. '