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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 March 1917, Page 1

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THE NEW ZEALAND 1 AliiiEßft CO-(»I'ERATJ.VE DISTIMii CTINU OOiiPANY, Llili'i'i£D. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, March 24. The potato market is steady at recent rates; crops in-the south promise fairly well, and supplies are now being offered freely. Wheat values show 110 change. There is an improved demand for maize. The recent • sharp rise in oat values has been maintained and fair business is being done. Pollard is scarce and southern merchants do not seem alixious to sell. Bran is offering freely. Eggs are in fair demand and price remains unchanged though with a slightly weaker tendency. Ajl poultry is in excellent demand at good prices. Dressed pork is in short supply and the demand good. Mollasses is unprocurable but linseed oil cake meal for stock feeding is being largely used with satisfactory results. Good lines of green peas are keenly sought after and realize top rates. Choice cabbages are scarce and bring satisfactory prices. Cauliflowers are also very scarce and values are high. 13est quality French beans are in keen demand, but inferior lines are slow of sale. Lettuce is in poor supply and the demand keen. .There is a fair demand for swedes. Pumpkins and marrows are in fair demand. JJeetroot, spring onions, leeks and celery are selling well. Dessert apples are in good demand and bring satisfactory prices. Cooking apples are also selling well and prices have improved. Tomatoes are in fair supply and meet good demand. There are still a few plums coming in and these meet an excellent demand. Dessert and cooking pears are realizing good prices. Grapes are selling well. Wheat. —Good whole fowl 6s 9d to Gs lOd per bushel. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt 9s per cwt ; others 5s 6d to 7s 6d per cwt. White Turnips—3b per sk. Cabbage 7s to 10s per sack. Beetroot.—6d per bunch. Pumpkins. 14s per sack French beans 2d per lb. Broad beans.— f>s to 7s part sack. Carrots—Best 6s to 6s 6d per sack. Leeks.— Is 3d l>e>r bundle. Lettuce.—Choice 4s to 5s case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions Is Id per bundle. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Green peas Is 9d to 2s per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 9d per peck. Hutt tomatoes.—2s to 4s per half case. • Nelson tomatoes.—3s per half case. Tomatoes.—3e 6d to os per half case. Parsnips.—Bs per sack. Asparagus — 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Feed 4s 6d per bushel; special quotes tor large lots. Oats Seed, Australian.—Algerians, dressed and clipped, to arrive, 06, others 4s 7d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 8d; Duns 4s 9d per bushel. Seed Oiats.—Australian: Algerians, dressed and clipped to arrive 4s 9d; others 4s 6d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 6d; Duns 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—Bs Gd pe:; bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.--5s 9d per bushel. iMfwze.—ss 6d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed 4s 4d per bushel. Barley Feed.—ss 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 Ducks 7s; Indian Runners, 6s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; Hens, lid to Is per lb live weight. Bran.—£s 10s"per ton. j Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton of 20001bs. 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 30b. Straw.-—£3 ICte per ton ex 6tore. Quicklime. —la 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and bone meal.—l7s per 100; 9s' per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is lOd to 2s. ' Superphosphates, JOB 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.—l6s per sack. Onions.—Local £7 to £7 10s per ton Spring onions. 8d to Is per bundle. Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles . Parsnips.—los per sack. French beans.—3d per lb. Broa3 Beans 3d per lb. Green Peas—Ss per peek. Marrows.—2s to 2s 6d per case. Asparagas.-—ls to Is 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 J case. Apricots—Choice dessert, l'ls per 1 oase. Swedes.—3s to 4s per cwt. Apples. 5s to 8s per case. Apples— Cooking, 4s to 6s per case Peaches. —Choice dessert 6s to 8s per, half case. Burbank Plums.—3s to 4s per } case.