COMMERCIAL.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 13 March 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND I'Ali.AlElia CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITSIX WEEKLY REPORT., Wellingtorij March 2,

Local potatoes are coming in "freely and considerable supplies are also arriving from the South Island, consequently values are lower. The wheat market remains unchanged, southern merchants quoting Government rate, plus' buying commission. Maize is selling freely. Oats are still in short supply and prices have again advanced ; there is a good enquiry for all varieties. Pollard and bran are firm at recent rates. There is a good demand for dressed pork. Eggs are still scarce and the price has risen a further threepence per dozen. All poultry is in good demand at satisfactory prices. Vegetables.— Green pears .are |in good demand and high prices are being realized. Cabbages are plentiful and selling at low rates. French beau.s continue to bring good prices. Lettuce meets keen demand at high prices... Swedes ..are .in «- fair, demand. Very few cauliflowers are coming to hand and these meet keen • demand. Beetroot and red cabbage are selling well. There is also a good demalid for pumpkins and marrows. Parsnips, carrots, spring onions, lettuce and celery are in excellent demand. ; " Fruit.—Dessert and cooking apples are still coming in freely and choice lines are in good demand; inferior qualities are slow of sale. Hutt tomatoes have been plentiful ■ during the week and prices have been very low. Plums ,of all kinds are in excellent demand. There is fair enquiry for dessert and cooking pears. A good enquiry continues for grapes. Vegetables.

Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 6e lOd to 7s. . Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Partridge, peas.-—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt 10s to 12s 0:1 per cwt; others 7s to Bs. White Turnips—3a per sk. Cabbage.—Choice 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack. {Beetroot.—6d per bunch. Pumpkins- 14s per sack French . beans.—2d per lb. Broad beans.- 5s to 7s part 5,.".1 i Carrots.—Best 6s per sack. Leeks.- Is 3d pear- bundle. . Lettuce.—Choice 7s to 9s case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.—ls Id per bundle. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Green peas.—2s per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 9d per peck. Hutt tomatoes.—2s to 4s per half case. Nelson tomatoes.—3s per half case. Parsnips.—Bs per sack. Asparagus — 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Feed 4s 3d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per-busbel.

Seed Gats; ■—Australian: , Algerians, dressed and. dipped to arrived 4s. J9d ; others 4s • 6d;" Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 6d; Duns 4s fid rper. bushel. • Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d per bushel. Russian Barley Gape Seed.—ss per bushel. Maize.—ss 6d per bushel. Oate. —Crushed 4s 4d per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. - Barley Meal.—£7 15s per ton. Poultry Light Table Hens, 3s 6d; Heavy Hens ss; Cockerels from 3s; heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s"; Good heavy Duoks 7s; Indian Runners, 6s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; Hens, lid to le per lb live weight. Bran.— £5 10s. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11.10s per ton. 100's, 12s; sd's, 6s 6d. Thia is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf £6 per ton. Molasses.—ln casks 30s. Straw.— £3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 28lb air-tight tins, 3.s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and f» per 251b bag. Eggs.—2s 3d per dozen. Superphosphates, SH 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to To lOd lbCauliflower.—lis to 13s per sack.

Onions £7 10s per ton. Rhubarb.-—3s to 5s per doz bundles Turnips.—White, 2s per sack. French Beans.—4s per part sack. Broad JBeans 3d per lb. Green Peas—2a per peck. Marrows.—se >per sack. Asparagas.—ls -.to ls .6d bundle Fruit. Nectarines.—7s 6d per half case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s 6d per J case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per 1 case. Apricots—Choice dessert, lis per i case. Swedes.'—3s per cwt. Apples 8s per full case. Apples, cooking.—ss per ful case. Peaches, choice dessert.—6s 6d per half case. Burbank Plums.—3s to 4s per } case.. Greengages.—Bs per half case. Grapes.—ls Id per lb. Nectarines. —6s per , half case. Plutns.—Blue Diamond 6s per half case; others 5s 6d,.per half case.

Plums.—October purple, 6s 6d per iialf case. Raspberries—6s 6d per bucket. Lemons—l6s per case. Gooseberries.—3d. per lb. Strawberres.—ls 6d punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Pears.—.Local W.8.C., 'choice dessert 5s 6d per half case; medium 4e. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. ' Blackberries.—3£d per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per i-case. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's 6d; 90s to "lOO's 6d; baconers sd; choppers (heavy) <ld per lb. Honey—6d to 7d per lb. Beeevrax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts-—9d par U».