COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 18860, 28 June 1920, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

THE LOCAL MARKETS. Times Office, Saturday, June 26. GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Sunlight and Lifebuoy soaps have been reduced and ore now quoted at 44/9 and 29/- respectively. . Singer’s Egg Producer is now worth 21/- per dozen. The proprietors of Amber Tips teas advise a reduction of 3d per lb as from July i. C. &E. Morton, Ltd., advise merchants that owing to difficulties in obtaining supplies of bottles and raw materials, they find it impossible to meet the demand for certain goods. Mellin’s Food, large, has advanced to 30/per dozen. Cailler's cocoa, has advanced 3d per lb. CURRENT PRICES. The following are current prices quotfd by a retailer: — —Wholesale.— Eggs, 2/2. Bacon, 1/7. Butter—Farm 1/3, separator 1/4, factory l/7i. Pollard, £lO per ton. Bran, £8 per ton. Flour, £l7 10/- to £2O 10/-. Oatmeal, £3l 10/- to £35. Potatoes, £7 to £8 .10/- per ton. —Retail—■ Eggs, 2/6. Bacon, 1/10. Butter—Farm 1/4, separator 1/6, fac tory 1/9 net cash. Pollard, 12/- per 100. Flour—2s’s 5/9, 50’s 11/-, 100’s 21/6, 200’s 39/-. Oatmeal—2s’s 9/3, 50’s 18/-. Potatoes—lo/- to 11/- per cwt. Kerosene—l 2/3 and 24/-. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. Business in the fruit market continues brisk. Supplies have eased off and values all round are showing a firming tendency. The Paloona is due at Bluff to-morrow, and the first shipment of South Australian oranges for the season should be on the market on Tuesday morning. Bananas are expected in about ten days’ time. Following are the approximate wholesale prices;— Apples, Delicious 14/- to 16/- per case; Jonathans, 9/6 to 12/-; Stunners, 11/to 13/-; Qeopatras, 7/- to 9/6; Scarlets, 7/6 to 8/G; Lord Wolsey, 7/- to 8/-; other cookers, 6/6 to 7/6; pears, Winter Nelis, 3d to 4d per lb; Coles, 24d to 31d; Blairgeau, 2d to 21d; Glomarceau, 5/6 to 7/G per case; Vickers, 5/- to 7/-; lemons, Sydney 20/-, Adelaide 32/6; oranges, Adelaides (to arrive 30th), Sydney 32/- to 36/-; mandarins, 35/- to 38/-; passions, 15/- to 17/per box; pines, 30/- to 35/-. Vegetables are short of requirements. Wholesale, the values are approximately as follows; Cabbage, 6/- to 8/- per sack ;Cabbage, 6/- to 8/- per sack; cauliflowers, 8/to 12/- per dozen; carrots and parsnips, 9/- per cwt. FISH. The supplies of fish on the local market have not been so heavy during the week as on some occasions lately. To-day the market is pretty weil bereft of supplies due, no doubt, to the wet weather. HARDWARE. Hardware prices remain practically unchanged. The trade, generally speaking, is brisk, but, like other trades, it is still suffering from a shortage of supplies. Fencing material remains at about the same level as that previously reported. A small quantity of barb-wire has been available, going into consumption at from 72/6 to 75/- per cwt. Rooting iron is selling at 80/-, and good supplies appear to be available. The building trade . continues brisk, but it is hampered by the present wintry weather. McKAY BROS.’ REPORT. , Messrs McKay Bros, report as follows; Poultry—Hens, 2/- to 2/9; roosters, 4/-; turkey gobblers, 9/- to 19/6. Bacon Pigs.—Enquiries invited; right prices offered. Full particulars on application. We receive any day. Produce. —Heavy supplies of table potatoes on hand; prices the same as last week. Seed Potatoes—We have buyers for prime Up-to-Dates, Sfitfon Supreme, King Edwards, White Elephant. Growers please note. We have sold Up-to-Dates, £9 10/-; Sutton Supreme, £9 10/-; British Queen, £9. Onions, 10/-; prime chaff, £8 10/-; pollard, 19/-; wheat, 35/-; bran, 19/- per ISOib bag; barley meal, 17/6; pressed straw, 5/6 bale; cabbage, 6/-; carrots, 10/- cwt; pickling onions, 14/- cwt. Fruit.—Moderate supplies of apples and pears have liven coming to hand during the week, and good varieties of dessert and cooking apples and pears have sold readily. Inferior and second grade fruit hard to quit. Approximate prices: Dessert apples, 10/- to 15/-; cooking apples, 7/- to 10/-; pears, dessert 3d to 41d per lb, cooking pears 71case; peanuts, lOld per lb; bananas are due to arrive in about 10 days’ time. A shipment of Australian oranges and lemons are due to arrive on Monday and will be sold on Tuesday morning. General.—Owing to the cold weather a keen demand for horse and cow-covers has been noticeable. Our rovers at 21/- and 47/G are the best value on the market. Exchange tea, 15/- per 51b box. Try it. Furniture.—Demand continues good and our keen prices to cash buyers make business in this department very satisfactory. Motor cars. —We have on hand for sale on behalf of vendors, one Siddeley car. 5-seat-er; one Bnink, 5-sealer; one Chevrolet, 5-seater one Adler, 3-seater; and one Vulcan, 5-seator. All these ears are guaranteed in perfect running order, and full particulars cun be had on application. THE RIALTO. Messrs Y/illiam Todd and Co., Ltd., report the following sales on Saturday:— Poult ry.—Hens, 2/8 to 4/3: pullets, 6/to 11/-; roosters, 2/- to 3/10; ducks, 3/to 5/10. Pigs.—A keen demand. Suckers, £1 8/to £1 17/-; weaners, £2 to £2 8/-; sow, £5 2/6. Produce.—Potatoes, £7 per ton (bags in) ; heavy supplies; oats, £1 2/6 to £1 8/(bags in 1 ; oat dust, 6/- bag; hay, £6 ton; straw, £5 10/- ton; chaff, £S 10/- ton. Muttonbirds, lid. Honey, 601b tins, 10d lb. Horse-covers, £2 5/- to £2 15/-; cow-covers. £1 2/6 to £1 6/- (lined). Ceylon tea (in chests), 2/9 to 2/10 lb. BRAY BROS.’ REPORT. Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd., report as follows for week ending June 26: The produce market has been well supplied during the week. Consignments of potatoes have been heavy, and unless an export trade can be obtained it is quite possible that values may recede still further. There is a good enquiry for chaff, and prime quality is to-day worth about £7, on trucks, country stations. Onions are fairly plentiful. The oat market is quiet. The following prices were the average for the past week. Potatoes—£7 per ton. Onions—l2/- cwt. Oats—s/4 to 5/9 per bushel. Chaff—Prime quality to £8 10/-, discoloured £6. Oaten Straw —£5 10/- per ton; damaged, 2/6 bale. Meggitt’s Linseed Meal—2s/- per bag. Oatdust—6/- per bag. Bran—lo/- per bag. Pollard —12/- per bag. Fruit.—Apples (dessert),-3d to 5d per lb, according to variety and grade. Apples (cooking), 24d to 2Jd per lb; pears (dessert), 3d to 4id lb; pears (cooking), 24d to 3d per lb. Vegetables.—Cabbage to 8/- per sack; swedes, 2/- to 3/- per bag; carrots, 4/per bag; parsnips to 2d per lb.

. Lepp Salt Lick—2/3 per brick; wholesale! 2/-. fc!ow Covers—Lined, 21/6; unlined, 20/-. Horse Covers—Best American duck, £2 16/- to £3. Sundries—Boots, 35/- pair. Honey (in tins), 10/-j tea (in 51b packets), 12/-. Jam (in glass pots), 2/6 per pot. Muttonbirds (in kits of 40 to 5/ birds), 1/- per bird. Furniture—Our warehouse in Spey street is well stocked with every class of furniture, including oak and rimu goods. We have large stocks of linoleum in the newest patterns, and a big display of seagrass chairs and settees. First grade Samarang kapoc always in stock. General,—One 4-cylinder 5-scater Buiok motor car in tip-top order, condition guaranteed, and any trial given. Price—£2so., F. BOWDEN & CO.’S REPORT. Messrs F. Bowden & Co. report fair business during the week. We have handled some very choice lines of apples and pears. The demand for Delicious apples is considerably greater than the supply, and what are coming forward are realising extraordinary high prices. ' Choice Coles and Nelis pears have advanced in price. Parsnips are short of requirements and supplies are wanted. Oranges, mandarins, lemons and navel oranges are due to arrive on Tuesday and will come on to a bare market. The week closed with prices ruling Apples, Delicious 5d to lb; Stunners (choice coloured), 12/6; Scarlets, 10/6 to 11/6; Jonathans, 10/6 to 12/- case; cookers —Munroe’s 7/- to 9/-, Lord Wolsey (small? 6/6 to 7/6 case; pears—Winter Nelis and Coles, 31d to 44d lb; others cheaper; cookers, 2d to 24d lb; S.A. lemons, 22/case; quinces, 34d lb; walnuts, 1/3 lb; tomatoes, 1/2 lb. Vegetables, Etc.—Carrots, 5/6 bag; cabbage, 4/6 bag; red cabbage, 10/6 cwt; potatoes, 7/- to 7/6 cwt; cauliflower, 6/6 dozen; pickling onions, 2d lb; violets, 1/bunch. THE DUNEDIN MARKETS. DUNEDIN, June 26. There is practically no milling wheat coming to hand on the local market, and evidently it has all been sent forward. If this is the case it is not improbable that Dunedin millers will run out of flour before the end of the season. Any small lines that are offering are being used for seed purposes, the demand for which is good. No fowl wheat is to be had in this district, and consequently poultry keepers are turning their attention to barley and oats for feeding purposes. The local Government fixed wheat prices for June are as follow; Velvet or pearl, 7/114; Hunters, 7/8; Tuscan, 7/54—a1l f.0.b., sacks extra (the prices include 14d per bushel brokerage). Millers' prices are as follow:—Flour, £l7 per ton; 100’s, £lB 10/-; 50’s, £l9; 25’s, £2O. Bran, £8 per ton. Pollard, £lO. Pearl barley, £35. Oatmeal, £3l per ton. During the past month there have been practically no offerings of oats, and it would appear that all oats are now in merchants’ or millers’ hands. The quantity held in stores is light, and merchants are, therefore, firm holders in spite of advice from the North Island that the market is weakening. Nominal values are 5/11, f.0.b.5.i., for A grade Cartons, and Id less for B grade, these prices being equivalent to 5/-, sacks extra, on trucks at country sidings. THE WOOL MARKET, FAILURE OF LIVERPOOL SALES. TRADE OUTLOOK DISQUIETING. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, June 26. (Received June 27, 5.5 p.m.) As only 11,000 bales of wool were sold out of 30,000 on the first day of the Liverpool sales, the second day was abandoned. Yorkshire traders consider the outlook disquieting. They estimate that the Government will still have 1,000,000 bales on hand at the end of the year instead of the original estimate of 530,000. Traders say i that, while the immediate cause of the restricted demand is the falling .market and consequent instability of trade, the real cause is the political situation in Central and Eastern Euro|>e. Until these countries settle down the demand must continue poor, as other countries have now an ample supply. LONDON MARKETS. LONDON, June 26. (Received June 27, 5.5 p.m.) Cotton—July quotations, 23.87 d. Rubber—Para, 24d; plantation, 23|d; smoked, 23£ d. Hemp—Dull. May-July shipment, £55. Jute is tending downward. August-Sep-tember shipment, £52. Copra is firm. August-October shipment, £44 5/- nominal. Linseed oil, £79 10/-; turpentine, 142/-. FOREIGN EXCHANGE. The Bank of New South Wales has received advice quoting the buying rates, approximately, of foreign exchange for on demand bills on London. The advice which is cabled to Australia, thence transmitted to New Zealand by mail, is as follows; June 8. Par, Italy—Lire to £1 66.25 25.225 Madrid—Pesetas to £1 .. 23.90 25.225 Switzerland—Fr. to £l.. 21.50 25.225 HeUingfors—F.M. to £1 78.00 25.225 Greece—Drach. to £1 . . 33.50 25.225 Amsterdam—Fl. to £1 . . 10.68 12.107 May 31. Batavia—Guilders to £1 10.50 12.107 Copenhagen—Kr. to £1 23.05 18.159 Germany—Mark to £l.. 164.00 20.43 Hong Kong—St. to dob* 4/1 Singapore—St. to d 01.*.. 2/3 11-16 d '•‘Telegraphic transfer. WHOOPING COUGH. SPLENDID HOME MADE REMEDY. (By a Qualified Chemist.) Whooping Cough is a nasty complaint. It should be properly treated right at the start. The following mixture gives wonderful relief, cuts the phlegm away, and instantly eases the breathing. Obtain from your chemist or store a bottle of HEENZO (Hean’s Essence). Take home and mix with water and sweetening as per simple directions on label. From a few drops to a spoonful should be given as often as required. The first dose wall prove its value, and if given when a cold first appears, severe whooping wall be prevented. HEENZO (Hean’s Essence), is prepared by a family chemist of over 30 years’ experience. It contains the undiluted medicinal ingredients for a pint of the best possible cough and cold remedy. Ever}' bottle you use saves at least 10/- for your pocket. It is regularly sold by most chemists and' grocers. Be sure you get H-E-E-N-Z-O, the original and genuine cough mixture.— (Advt.)