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Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 April 1917, Page 1

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THE NEW ZEALAND L'AKAiEIW CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTrN'tJ COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. "Wellingtn,. March 30. The potato market shows a slight improvement since last report, firstclass lines are selling readily although inferior lines are hard to quit. "Wheat is unchanged. Owing to importations local values for maize are lower. The price of oats shows a slightly weaker tendency. Pollard is scarce and firm in price but ibran is offering freely. Eggs are in good demand and the price remains unchanged. Poultry is in excellent demand at good prices. There is a good demand for dressed ■ pork. Molasses is unprocurable but linseed oil cake meal is being largely availed of for stock feeding. All green vegetables are scarce and bringing high prices. The best lines of green peas are readily bought up at top rates. Choice cabbages and cauliflower are very scarce and values are high. French beans have been coming in more freely and values are lower. Lettuce is in short supply and there is a keen demand. Swedes are scarce and the price has improved. Pumpkins and marrows .are in fair demand and realizing good prices. Best root, spring onions, leeks and celery are selling well. Dessert and cooking apples are plentiful and prices have declined. Tomatoes are scarce and the prices show a distinct improvement. Dessert and cooking pears are coming in freely and prices are lower. There is a good demand for grapes which are realizing satisfactory prices. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 6s 9d to 6s lOd per bushel. Pollard.—£7 15s to_ £8 per ton. Partridge peas.-—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt, 9s per cwt.; others 6s to 7s per cwt. White Turnips—3s per sk. Cabbage.—Choice 8s to 9s per sack. Beetroot 4s to 5s per sack. Pumpkins. 14s per "sack 'French Beans.—lr per lb; 2s to 3s part sack. Broad beans.- Hs to 7s part sack. Carrots.—Best 6s to 7s per sack. Leeks.— Is 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—Choice 3s 3d per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions Is Id per bundle. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Green Peas. —2s per sack. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 9d per peck. Hutt Tomatoes.—Bs to lis per half case-. Nelson tomatoes.—3s per half case. Tomatoes.—3s (3d to 5b per half case. Parsnips —8s 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 Sparrow hills 4s 8d; Duns 4s 9d per bushel. Seed Oats. —Australian: Algerians, dressed and clipped to arrive 4s 9d; others 4s 6d j Gartons and Sparrowbills 4a 6dj Duns 4s 6d per bushel, j Partridge Peas Seed. —6s (id pei bushel. . . j Russian Barley Cape Seed.--5s 9d t>er bushel. \ Maize—ss 4d to 5s 6d per bushl. ' Oats.—Crushed 4s. 4d per -bushel., . Barley Feed.—ss per bushel. Barley Meal.—£7 '1.5s per ton. _ Poultry Light Table Hens, 3s 6d\; Heavy Hens ssCockerels 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. Liruseed 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 30s. Straw.—£3 ICte per ton ex store. Quicklime. —In 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, £8 10a per t-on. Oandlee, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to I» lOd >b. Oauliflower.—los to —s per sack. Onions.—'Local 7s per ton Turnips White.—2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack. Spring Onions.—6d to 8d per dozen bundle. Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles Parsnips.—Bs to 9s per sack. French beans.—3d per lb. Broad Beans 3d per lb. Green Peas—Ss per peck. Marrows.—4s per sack. - Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle Fruit. Apples—6s to 8s per full case Apples.—Cooking 4s to 4s 6d per full case. Nectarines.—7s 6d per half case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s 6d per J case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per i i case. Apricots—Choice dessert, lis per 1 case. Swedes.—4s to 5s per cwt. Peaches.—Choice dessert 6s to 8s per half case. Burbank Plums.—3s to 4s per I case.

Greengages.—Bs per half case. Grapes.—ls 6d per lb. * .Nectarines 6s per half case. Plums.—3s 6d per half case. -Blackberries.— 3d per lb. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Stravvberres.—ls 6d punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Pears.—Local W.B.C. choice dessert 3s 6d per half case. Medium 2s 6d per half case. Pollard.— £7 15s to £8 per ton. .Blackberries 3Jd per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per J-case. Honey.—6d per lb. ■■-;■ Bieswax.—ls per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts—9d "er lb. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's, 6d to 6id; 90's to 100's, 6d; Baconers, sd; Choppers (heavy), 3d to 4d per lb. Our weekly pork sales lield 'each Wednesday evenings , or Thursday Thursday. Pi.gs should α-rqive on noon. '.'Blue Bell" Arsenate of Lead.— Ai list rates. "Wiie Bell" Lime Sulphur.'—2s per gallon, in casks. Vapourite (Staawson's). —Kills all soil insects, 2os per cwt.; los per .-o\vt liasic Slag.— £7 10s per ton. Superphosphate.—£7 5s per ton. Waingawa Manures and W.M.E. Ooy's. as per price list. Tea.—s and 101b boxes, Iβ 8d to 2s 2d: Chests. Is <M to 2s lb.