COMMERCIAL.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 20 March 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE ZEALAND KA£&&R£ CO-OPERATIVE DISfT< IBUTINti COMPANY, LIMJTISD. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, 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 6till scarce and the price lias risen a further threepence per dozen. All poultry is in good demand at satisfactory prices.

Vegetables.— Green pears .are* lin good demand and high prices are being realized. Cabbages are plentiful and selling at low rates. French beans 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 demand 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, 6s lOd to 7s. Pollard.—£7 los per ton. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt ICte to 12s 6d per cwt; others 7s to Bs. White Turnips—3s 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 sack. Carrots.—Best 6s per sack. Leeks.- Is 3d per bundlo. Lettuce.—Choice 7s to 9s case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.—ls Id per bundle. Asparaga-s.—6d to lOd bundle. Green peas.--2s per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—lr 9d par 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 bushel. Seed Oats.—Australian: Algerians, dressed and clipped to arrive 4s 9cl; others 4s 6d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 6d; Duns 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed.—6s 6d per bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. 'Maize. 6d per bushel. Oats.—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 Djuoks 7s; Indian Runners, 6s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; Hens, lid to Is per lb live weight. Bran.— £5 10s. linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf £6 per ton. Molasses.—ln casks 30s. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 38lb air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—2s 3d per dozen. Superphosphates, JSC 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d; chests, Is 6d to fa lOd lb. Cauliflower.—lis to 13s per sack.

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

Plums.—October purple, Cs 6d per .half case. Raspberries—6s 6d per bucket. Lemons—l6s per case. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberres.—ls 6d punnet Cherries.—Local Cboico 2s per lb. Pears.—Local W.8.C., 'choice dessert 5s 6d per half case; medium 4s. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Blackberries.—3Jd per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per J-case. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's 6d; 90's to ICO's 6d; bacon ens 5d ; choppers (heavy) 4d per lb. Honey—6d to 7d per lb. Beeswax.—ls 0d p»r lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—Bd per lb.