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Levin Daily Chronicle, 31 March 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE N E\T ZEALAND t'AKM-KilS CO- <>PER ATI VE JJISTRIH UTDs'W COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY UEPOIiT. Wellington, March 24. The potato market is steady at recent rates; crops in the south'promise fairjy well, and supplies are now being offered freely. Wheat values show 110 change. There is ail improved demand for maize. The recent sharp rise in oat values lias been maintained and fair business is being done. i : o!lard is scarce and southern merchants do not seem anxious to sell. JJran is offering freely. Eggs are in fair demand and price remains unchanged though with a slightly weaker tendency. A]l 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 arc 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. 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 peajra are realizing good prices. Grapes are selling well. Wheat.—'Good whole fowl Gs 9d to Cs lOd per bushel. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt 9s per cwt; others 5s Cd to 7s tid per cwt. White Turnips—Bs 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 <5s 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 case. Nelson tomatoes.—3s per half case. Tomatoes.—3e (id to 06 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 .Oate. —Australian: Algerians, dressed and clipped to arrive -Is 9d; others 4s 6d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 6d; Duns 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6a <3d ptsi bushel. 'Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss 9<l per bushel. iAlaize.—ss (3d 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 Hunners, 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 10s per ton of 20001bs. 100'b 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 ex store. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and bone meal.—l7s per 100; 9s per SO, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is lOd to 2s. Superphosphates, £8 10a per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per bos. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, la 8d: chests, Is 6d to T« lOd lbCauliflower.—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« Broad Beans 3d per lb. Green Peaa—2a per peck. Marrows.—2s to 2s 6d per case. Asparagas.—ls to le 6d bundle Fruit. Nectarines.—7s 6d per half case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s 6d per 1 case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per 1 case. Apricots—Choice dessert, lis per 4 case. Swedes.—3s to 4s per cwt. Apples. 5s to 8s per ease. Apples— Cooking, 4s to 6s per case Peaches.—Choice dessert 6s to 8s per half case. Burbanb' Plums.—3s to* 4s per I ease.

Greengages. —8s per half case. (Jrapes.—Bd to l.s per lb. ■Nectarines.—6s per half case. Plums.—3s 6d per half case. .Blackberries.'—3d per lb. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Straivb'crres.—ls Gd punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Pears.— (Local W.8.C., choice dessert 8s per case; medium 3s 6d. Pollard.— £7 los to £8 per ton. .Blackberries.—3Jd per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per J-case. Honey.—6d per lb. Beeswax.—ls 8d per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb.. Walnuts.—3d par lb. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's, 6d to Gid; 90's to 100's, fid; Baconers, sd; Choppers (heavy), 3d to 4d per lb. Our wce-My pork sales held 'each Wednesday •evenings or Thursday Thursday. Pigs should arrive on noon. "Blue Bell" Arsenate of Lead.—At list rates. "Blue Bell" Lime Sulphur.—2s per gallon, in casks. Vapourite (Strawson's). —Kills all soil insects, 25s per cwt.; 15s per .-ewt Basic Slag.—£7 10s per ton. Superphosphate.—£7 os per ton. AVaingawa Manures and W.M.JS. 'Joy's, as per price list. Tea.—s and 101b boxes, Is 8d to 2s 2d; Chests, Is (3d to 2s lb.