IN THE MARKET PLACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 281, 17 February 1928, Page 12

IN THE MARKET PLACE

RIPE BANANAS SCARCE CHEAPER EGGS Steady trading is reported in most sections in the city marts. Business in the fruit section is confined chiefly to New Zealand seasonal varieties. Eggs have eased in price. Ripe bananas are scarce and selling at considerably higher values. A fresh shipment is due from the Fiji group on Monday week. Oranges meet with a limited demand. The demand for apples continues weak, and only the very best grades meet with much competition. Good dessert plums sell freely at late rates. Bon Cretian peats have increased in value during the past few days, the best grades meeting with a firm demand. Stocks of lemons are not heavy and values remain high. Best garden peaches also meet with a ready sale at firm values. Apricots continue to come to hand from Otago, but the condition of the arrivals is very poor and the consignments hard to quit. In the field and garden produce sections, potatoes are well supplied, but the quality, generally, is not high, the local tubers in many ’nstances being very small. Green vegetables remain scarce, and vegetables, such as onions, pumpkins and cucumbers, are the chief sellers. A small consignment of beans on account of a Hastings grower was noticed in the marts this morning. Citron melons have now come on the market. Eggs have eased in price during the last day or so, and the demand is slightly In the poultry sections values generally register a slight hardening tendency. Pullets are now offering in greater numbers and meeting with a steady demand. Prices under the hammer at to-day’s auctions in the city marts ranged as follow: — Fruit Apples: Gravenstein, choice coloured, 5s to 6s a case; green, 3s to 4s 6d; cookers, 3s to 4s 6d: Willie Sharp, 3s to 4s. Pears: Bon Cretian, 6s 6d to 8s 6d a case; No. 2’s, 4s 6d to ss. Tomatoes: Is 6d to 4s a case. Plums: Satsuma, 6s to 8s a case; October purple, 5s 6d to 7s 6d; prunes, 4s 6d to 3s 6d; damsons, 9s; Purple King, 9s to 10s; Doris, 6s to 9s. Apricots: Otago, 3s to 5s a case. Peaches: Best coloured dessert, 8s to 10s a case; others, 6s to 7s 6d. Lemons: 18s to 25s a case. Grapes: Hothouse, lOd to Is 5d a lb. Oranges: American, 30s to 31s a case. Bananas: Repacks, 20s to 25s a case; No. 2’s, 10s to 12s. Nectarines: 10s to 15s a case. Cape Gooseberries: 6d a lb. Vegetables Potatoes: 7s to 12s a cwt, according to quality. Kumeras: New season’s, 25d to 2!d a lb. Pumpkins: 9s to 16s a cwt. Swedes: 4s to 5s 6d a bag. Onions: 6s to 5s 8d a sugar bag. Cabbage: 4s to 12s a sack. Citron Melons: 8s 6d to 9s a cwt. Lettuce: 4s to 14s a case. Poultry Chicks: White cocks, 6d to Is each; heavy cocks, Is to 2s. _ _ _ , Cockerels: Heavy, 5s 3d to 6s 9d; lighter, 4s to ss; light, 2s to 2s 9d. Hens: Heavy, 2s 8d to 3s 6d; lighter. Is 9d to 2s 9d. „ M Roosters: Is 6d to 2s 6d. Ducks: Is 6d to 2s. Muscovy Ducks: 4s to ss. Muscovy Drakes: 3s 9d to ss. Young Drakes: Is 6d to 3s 6d. Gobblers: 13s to 17s. Turkey Hens: 6s to Bs. . _ Pullets, according to size: 4s to 9s. Geese: 3s 9d to ss. , .. Prices of eggs and butter and the smaller-parcelled vegetables will be found in the Kit Bag column on another page.

SOUTHERN EXCHANGES YESTERDAY’S SALES Press Association. Wellinaton.—-New Zealand Government, 5i per cent, bonds, 1936, £lOl 2s 6d; National Bank of Australasia, £8 19s; Bank of New Zealand, £2 18s 6d; Wellington Trust Loan and Investment Company, £6 —Commercial Bank of Australia, 27s Bd, 27s 7d, 27s 8d; Bank of New Zealand, 58s sd; Bank of New South Wales (cum. div.), £47 15s; New Zealand Insurance, 41s; South British Insurance, 57s 9d (two parcels), 57s lOd (two parcels); New Zealand Refrigerating (con.), 7s lOd; Stockton Coal (ovd.), Is 3d; Beath and Co., 32s 6d; Mount Lyell, 29s lid; National Bank of Australia (£lO paid), £lB Is; New Zealand Government, 4£ per cent. Inscribed Stock, 1938, £97 2s 6d; Commercial Bank of Australia (rights), 7s 3d; Devonport Ferry 24s sd; New Zealand Breweries, 435; Taranaki Oil, 10s 3d, 10s 6d. Dunedin. —Kawarau, 8d; Mosgiel Woollen, £6 10s.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. SYDNEY, Thursday. The following are to-day’* quotations on the Sydney produce aiarket: Wheat. —At country stations, 4s s£d; ex truck Sydney, 5s Id. Flour.—Export trade still lifeless. Local, £l2 ss. Bran.— £7. Pollard.— £B. Oats.—Tasmanian, white, ss; Algerian, 4s 6d to 4s lOd. Maize.—3s 6d to 3s 9d. Potatoes. — £6 to £7 10s; local, £4 10s. Onions.—Victorian, £l4. Adelaide prices are:— Wheat.—Growers’ lots, ss; parcels, 5s 2Jd. Flour.—£l2 12s 6d. Bran.— £6 15s. Pollard.— £7 7s 6d. Oats.—3s 3d to 3s 4d.—A. and N.Z. TAUMARUNUI RAM FAIR (From Our Oxen Correspondent) TAUMARUNUI, Thursday. The Taumarunui Ram Fair, held at the Borough Saleyards this morning, saw a large entry of rams, mainly on account of Southern breeders. Despite the fact that most of the important breeders south of Taihape were represented, the top price was realised by local rams from the flocks of L. Fisher, Manunui, who received eleven guineas for Southdowns. The buying was fairly free, and most of the yarding changed hands. MINING NEWS "MOUNT WELCOME.—The manager reports: “The reef was intersected in No. 3 at a point 40ft back from where first picked up; a few pieces of stone showed good gold, but it is still small at this point. In the stoping from No. 2 some good quartz has been paddocked and when breaking down several days last week good colours could be seen in the stone, the gold being coarser thg.n usual. This week a fresh stope is being prepared in the block south of Barker’s winze and from the present appearance some good quartz should be won from this quarter.” LUCKY SHOT RECONSTRUCTION. — At a meeting of shareholders in the Lucky Shot Gold Mining Company held this week the directors were authorised to dispose of the company’s undertaking for £IO,OOO to a new company with a capital of £30,000 divided into 150,000 shares of 4s each, payment to be made to members of the vendor company, by the issue of one new share for every two shares now held.