MARKET REPORTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 252, 21 September 1940, Page 10

MARKET REPORTS.

The Dominion Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report receiving a full yarding of pigs at their weekly tale on Thursday:—There was a keen demand, a total clearance being made at satisfactory rates. Weancrs sold to 30s each, porkers to £3 each and sows to farrow to £lO 10s. Poultry were in demand, good hens soiling to 5s 6(j each, ducks to 6s each, and cockerels to 5s each, ’lhere was ail exceptionally keen demand for vegetables, cauliflowers in particular selling well, up to 15s 3d a bag; and asparagus to Is 4d a bundle. We quote: Pigs: Best weaners, 28s to 30s; medium. 24s to 265; small to backward, 16s to 20s; slips, 30s i.o 355; stores, 37s to 495; porkers, £2 11s to £3; sows to farrow, £8 to £lO 10s. Poultry: Heavy table fowls, 4s 9d to os Gd each ; best W.L. hens, 4s 4d to 4s 6d each; light hens, 2s Dd to 3s 6(1; ducks, 5s 6d to 6s 3d each ; cockerels, heavy, 4s to 4s 6d each ; medium, 3s to 4s each; small ducklings, to Is 6d each; pullets, to 6s each ; hens and chicks, to ,99. Produce: Asparagus, Is 4d bundle; rhubarb, 5s to 7s dozen ; cauliflower, 12s to 15s 3d sack; cabbages, Savoy, 5s to 7s 6d sack; spring 2s, 5s 3d case; celery, 14s to 20s case; lettuce, prime, 7s to 9s case; others, 2s to 4s case; leeks, 2s to 4s ease; carrots, 2s to 3s bag; parsnips, Is 6d to 2s 6d bag; punipKins, 20s to 25s bag; marrows, 4s to 7s case; spinach, 3s to 9s case; turnips, Is to Is 6(1 dozen; beetroot, 3s to 5s ease; onions, 13s bag; potatoes, 5s to 6s cwt. Produce Distributors, Ltd., report the following prices for this week according to quality and grade: Hothouse tomatoes, Is 3d to 2s 4d per lb; tree tomatoes, 7s 9d to 9s 4d; grapefruit, 9s to 13s; Chinese gooseberries, 8s 6d to 116; rhubarb, 7s to 13s dozen bunches; kuniern9,- 4£d per lb; pumpkins, Triumble, 35s to 40s large sack; lettuce, 2s to 10s 6d; celery, 3s to 11s; spinach, 4» to 7s; spring cabbage. 4s 6dto 5s 6d case; cauliflowers, 5s 9d to 12s 6d; swedes, 5s super bags; white

turnips, 2s; spring onions, Is; radish. 2s; boot, 2s dozen bunches; asparagus, lOd to Is- 6d bunch; carrots, 2s 6d, parsnips, 2s 6d sugar bag; onions (best table), 12? io 14s cental bags; poiatoes, 4s to 5s 6d cwt.