IN THE MARKET PLACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 184, 25 October 1927, Page 12

IN THE MARKET PLACE

QUIET TONE IN FRUIT VEGETABLES IN DEMAND A quiet tone prevails in the fruit sections of the city marts. Vegetables meet with a ready sale. Supplies of fruit are restricted. Apples remain firm at late quotations. A small shipment of citrus fruit arrived ex Sydney to-day and will go on the market to-morrow. The market was bare of grapes today, but a parcel of the Californian fruit and Island tomatoes arrives ex Wellington to-morrow morning. In the field and garden produce s. ction cabbages and rhubarb, especially, are well supplied. Vegetable marrows made their first appearance for the season this morning. Eggs continue to meet with a steady demand at unchanged prices. Farmers’ butter is slightly firmer. Fish is coming forward in ample supply with the demand keenest for hapuka and flounder. Prices under the hammer in the city marts this morning ranged as follow: FRUIT Apples. —Delicious, 9s to 13s a case; Stunners, 11s to 13s; Granny Smith, 12s to 13s 6d; Doughertys, Ss to 10s 6d. Pears. —Nellis and Coles, repacked, 12s 6d to 15s a case; P. Barrys, Ss to 9s 6d. Oranges. —lsland, 21s to 22s a case. Lemons. —te to 12s a case. Tree Tomatoes. —5s to 9s a case. Bananas. —Repacked, 24s to 27s a case. VEGETABLES Potatoes. —Southern, 6s 6d to 7s a cwt; new (good supplies), to 3|d a lb. Kumeras.-lls to 13s a cwt. Pumpkins. —Ordinary, 10s to 21s a cwt. Swedes. —2s to 2s 6d a bag. Onions. —Canadian, ISs to 19s a crate; Melbourne, 10s to 12s a cwt. Cabbage. —ss to 9s a sack Cauliflower. —3s to 9s 6d a sack. Lettuce. —2s 6d to 6s a case. Prices of smaller-parcelled vegetables and other lines will be found on another page in the Kit Bag Column. MINING NEWS GOLDEN AGE. —The manager reports: “The drive going north-east has been advanced a distance of 6 feet for the week. The country incased in the reef has been much firmer and the reef has now opened out to about 4 feet in width. It is carrying nice minerals and a fair amount of silica.” NEW WAIOTAHr. —The manager reports for the week ended October 22: “The drive hillward for the Waiotahi-Cambria reef has been advanced 8 feet for the week and the country continues to be hard grey andesite. A strong head is crossing the face of the drive which might be a change on the other side. LUCKY SHOT. —The manager reports: “The winze on the footwall of No. 3 reef has been sunk 6 feet for the week, making a total distance of 35 feet. The country rock looks well. As the reef here has turned into the hanging wall too flat to follow -with the winze, we intend to sink on our present course until reaching a depth of 50 feet. This reef will be intersected by the crosscut going to main reef. The drive on the main reef going north-east has been advanced 8 feet for the week. The reef is 4 feet in width and shows gold in the hanging wall portion. A start will be made next week to cart out chamber preparatory to sinking on footwall dropper.” MOANATAIARI. —The manager reports for the week ended October 22: “The drive hillward on the reef from No. 1 winze has been driven down 5 feet, a total of 64 feet. The footwall portion of the reef driven on averages 4 feet wide and carries nice mineral, blend, silica and a little ruby silver. The leader that came out of the footwall is still running with the main reef, but underlying the opposite way so that in the roof they junction, but the floors of the level are 5 feet apart. A few nice dabs and colours of gold were seen in this leader. About 4 feet back from the face another leader 4 inches wide is going off into the footwall. This leader carries mineral, blend, silica and ruby silver. I will try this leader also next week, as we do not seem to have the main footwall of the reef. The drive seaward on the reef from No. 1 winze has been driven 4 feet, a total of 52 feet. The hanging wall portion of the reef still averages 2 feet 6 inches wide and looks well. Colours of gold were seen in the ore. The leader that came out of the footwall last week and was running toward the main reef has turned away again into the footwall, and in the face the two branches are 7 feet apart. The leader on footwall has opened out to 12 inches wide, and is a nice body of stone. Colours and dabs of gold were seen in the ore. The drive seaward on Caledonia reef been extended 7 feet, a total of 48 feet. The reef here averages about two feet wide, but is still disturbed, making patches of quartz which carries nice mineral and silica.