COMMERCIAL.

Otaki Mail, 3 September 1923, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs W. Burbidge and Co., fruit auctioneers arid produce merchants, report:—Prices for vegetables are keeping up for both root and green. New potatoes on Friday sold at 7iM per lb j aid'green iteas at' .Is 2d per peek, of j t lbs. Apples have improved sliglirly. : Bfres air slow of *ale at lovser values. . Prices arc as follows:—Belie tous fclean) 9s to lis. spot as to 7s; Sturm- -• /..!,...„>, |-, s i„ 7s (id. spot o* bd to rjohertv ss" to 7s (id:" Washington 0s to Ss, small 4s to os. Pears: Winter s'-.le 10s to ll's; Conference bs to »s; ?icars 4s 6d to 5s 'all (ail bushel eases); c«t s 1* Id to Is 2d, dozen; walnuts lOd nor lb; cabbage. Savoys, good los to sprinn- Ss to 15s: cauliflower lt>s to carrots 20s to 255; parsnips ISs i.-v-s'sTto 12^all full sacks; beetroot 4s to 5s (id; artichokes 4s to 5s 6d part sacks; leeks lOd to Is bundle; rhubarb 3s to 2s-; nev-'notatoes Hd to 7Jd per lb: green peas 4§Lp d to Os 2d per peck ot 7 lbs.

LEVIN MARKET. KBEN DEMAND FQR FAT STOCK. A small yarding of stock came forwent at the Levin weekly sale yesterday prices beinp unchanged with a keen ami unsatisfied demand for all classed of fat stock, sheep being particularly short. There yvas only cow b-ef ottering, and that o rneel urn quality- but b everything jvos quitted at satisfactory prices. Pigs weie in fit ir supply and sold at late rare*. Qeiotations art- as follows: Pigs; Wearters, 18s to 835.; eit a gcoa toSKs; stores, 255. to 35s ; lipH ?orker s 35s io £2; heavier to £2 13s, porkers £2 15s ; baconers ±.3 Pis to u

porkers ; uui-uucio 1,1 mieep: Light fat mixer] i-ex •'■" ■ good ewe hoggets 27 s; mixed hogge s rattle- I'Jt cows £1 10s: forwaid '•owe £3 9s to £3 10s; store ft-v-s to £Z; 18-month he*ers £■* to £6 tJi a pen of well-bserl and well-done Jersev grades m ringme heifers £4 to £8; dairy cov- £3 10s to £o s*» bnli» o'ir, to £3.