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Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 March 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NISW ZEALAND FAJiSLEKa 00-uPJiIIATIVE JJiSHtiirjTlNi'i COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, March 24. The potato market is steady at recent rates; crops in the south promise fairiy well, and supplies are now being offered freely.Wheat values show no 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 anxious to seil. Bran is offering freely. Eggs are in fair demand and price remains unchanged though with a slightly weaker tendency. All poultry is in excellent demand at good prices. Dressed pork is in short supply and the demand gocd. 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. cabbages are scarce and bring satisfactory prices. Cauliflowers are also very scarce and values are high. Best 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. Beetroot, spring onions, leeks and celery are selling well. Lressert 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 pei- bushel. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s tid per bushel. . Potatoes.—Prime Hutt 9s per cwt; others 5s 6d to 7s 6d per cwt. White Turnips—Ba per sk. ■Cabbage.—7s to 10s 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 to 6s 6d per sack. Leeks.- Is 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—Choice 4s to os case. . Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.—ls 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 ease, Nelson tomatoes.—3s per half case. Tomatoes.—3e (id to 5e per half case. Parsnips.—Bs per sack. Asparagus — 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Feed 4s 6d per bushel ;• special quotes for large, lots. Oats Seed, Australian. —Algerians, dressed and clipped, to arrive, ss, others 4s 7d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 8d; Duns 4s 9d per bushel. Seed Gate.—Australian: Algerians, dre&sed and clipped to arrive 4s 9d; others 4s 6d; Gartons and " Sparrowbills 4s 6d; Duns 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Paaa Seed.—tts tid. pei bushel. 'Russian Barley Cape Seed. —ss> 9d per bushel. iMaize.—ss 6d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed 4s 4d per bushel. Barley Feed.—ss per bushel. Barley Meal.—£7 Iss per ton. Poultry.—Light Table Hens, 3s 6d; Heavy Hens ss; Cockerels from 3s; heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s; -Good heavy Ducks 7s; Indian Runnel's, 6s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; Hens, lid to Is per lb live weight. Bran.—£s 10s per ton.. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10a 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 30s. iSfcraw.—£3 10s per ton ex store. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tins. Ss per tin. Meat and bone meal.—l7s per 100; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—i Fresh, Is lOd to 2s. Superphosphates, £6 10s peri ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is Bd. chests, lg 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.—l6s per sack. * Onions.—'Local £7 to £7 10s per ton ■Spring onions. 8d to Is per bundle. - Rhubarb.—3a'to 5s pel* doz bundles. Parsnips.—los per sack. French beans.—3d per lb. Broad Beans 3d per lb. Green Peas—2g per peck. Marrows.—2s to 2s 6d per case. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle Fxuit. Nectarines.—7s 6d per half case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d "to 2s 6d per J case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per } case. Apricots—Choice dessert, lis per i case. Swedes.—3s to 4s per cwt. Apples. 5s to 8e per case. , Apples— Cooking, 4s to 6s -per case Peaches.—Choice dessert 6s to 8s per half case. Burbank Plums.—3s to 4s per J case.