IN THE MARKET PLACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 293, 2 March 1928, Page 12

IN THE MARKET PLACE

POOR DEMAND FOR APPLES TOMATOES SELL FREELY Steady trading is reported in most sections of the City Marts. Fruit meets with a ready sale, but supplies of vegetables are still restricted. A good demand is maintained for Bon Cretien pears, and the price has increased slightly over the week. Choice tomatoes are also selling freely. The demand for apples is rather lifeless and windfalls and small apples are practically without value. Stone fruit is gradually disappearing from the market and plums, especially, are almost finished. Hothouse grapes are moving slowly and quotations remain unaltered. Bananas and oranges meet with a steady sale with prices for the former, especially, well down toward the- season’s bedrock rates. In the field and garden produce section, supplies of potatoes are still rather limited and a firm demand prevails. Following the recent rains there is a tendency for supplies of green vegetables such as lettuces to incerase in supplv. Eggs and butter meet with a moderate demand at late rates. In the poultry section all good quality birds meet with a ready sale. Quotations from the City Marts this morning ranged as follow: FRUIT Apples.—Gravenstein, choice coloured 4s 6d to 6s a case, green 3s 6d to 4s; cookers, 3s to 4s 6d; Willie Sharp, 3s 6d to 4s. Pears.—Bon Cretien No. 1 7s 6d to 9s a case. No. 2 3s to ss: cooking pears, 3s to 5s 3d; Packham’s Triumph, 7s to Bs. Plums.—Monarchs, 6s to 7s a case; Ponds Seedlings, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; Grand Dukes, 6s 6d to 7s 6d. Peaches.—Best coloured dessert, 9s to 10s a case; others, 5s to 7s: Lake Red, 4s to 6s; Golden Queen, 6s to 9s. Lemons.—lss to 20s a case. Grapes.—ls to Is 9d a lb. Oranges.—American, 26s to 36s a case Bananas.—Repacks, 10s to 17s a case. Cape Gooseberries.—sd to 6d a lb. Passions.—3s to 10s a case. Tomatoes.—No. l’s, 5s 6d to 8s 6d a box; others, from 3s. Sweet Corn.—3s to 4s 6d a case. Sydney Pines.—los to 20s a case. Sydney Oranges.—l2s to 16s a case. VEGETABLES Potatoes.—Hastings and Rangitikei, 12s to 13s 6d a cwt; local, 2s to 5s 6d a bag. Onions.—l2s to 13s 6d a cwt. Kumeras.—3d to 4d a lb. Cabbage —3s to 12s 6d a bag. Swedes.—ss to 7s a bag. _ Pumpkins.—l2s to 18s a cwtf Green Peas.—los to 17s 6d a bag. Beans.—Ss to 14s a bag. Lettuce.—ls to 6s a case. POULTRY Cock Chicks.—White, 6d to Is eachheavy breeds, Is to 2s. Cockerels.—Heavy, prime, 5s 3d to 7s; lighter, 4s to ss; light, 2s to 2s 9d. Hens.—Heavy, 3s to 3s 9d; lighter, 2s 6d to 2s lOd. Roosters.—ls 6d to 2s 6d. Ducks.—2s to 2s 6d. Muscovy Drakes.—ss 6d to 7s. Muscovy Ducks.—is to ss. Young Drakes.—2s to 3s 6d. Young Ducks.—4s to 6s. Turkey Hens.—6s to Bs. Goblers.—l3s to 17s. Pullets.—According to size, 4s to 9s Geese.—3s 9d to ss. Prices of eggs and butter and th* smaller-parcelled vegetables will be found in the Kit Bag Column on another page. THE METAL MARKET By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Wednesday. Quotations on February 27 in parentheses. Copper.—Spot. £6O 11s IOJd (£6O 18s lid); three months, £6O 6s lOld (£6O 13s lid). Electrolytic Zinc.—Spot. £66 (£66 5s;); three months. £6O 10s (£67). Wire Bars.—Spot. £66 10s (£66 15s); three months, £ 66s 10s (£67). Bead.—Spot, £l9 12s 6d (£2O 3s 9d); three months, £2O (£2O 11s 3d). Spelter.—Spot. £25 2s 6d (£25 2s 6d); three months, £25 (£25 2s 6d). Tin.—Spot, £229 2s 6d (£232 17s 6d); three months £231 17s 6d (£235 Ss 9d). Silver.—Standard, 26 3-16 d (26 3-16 d) per oz; tine, 284 d (28id). —A. and K.Z. MELBOURNE HIDES SALES MELBOURNE, Thursday. At the Melbourne hide sales to-day stouts advanced one farthing to one halfpenny. Other classes were firm and unchanged.—A. and N.Z. LONDON TALLOW SALES LONDON, "Wednesday. At the London tallow sales to-day 343 casks were offered, but nor.e was sold. Quotations were unchanged. There will be no sales next week owing to short supplies.—A. and N.Z.-Sun. MATIERE STOCK SALE (From Our Oicn Correspondent) TAUMARUNUI, To-day. Sheep were In demand at the Matiere stock sale, over 5,000 being yarded. The local district was well represented, among the buyers, purchasers also being present from as far north as Rotorua. Bidding was brisk, and many prospective buyers were unable to fill their requirements. Prices:—Four and 5-year ewes, 23s to 255; 5-year ewes, 21s to 24s 6d; broken and failing-mouth ewes, 17s 6d to 21s; 2-tooth wethers, 20s, 21s, 21s 6d to 225; good woolly ewe lambs, 17s 6d; other lambs, 12s 6d to 16s; cull lambs, 10s 6d to 12s. COMPANY REGISTRATIONS Three more private companies have been registered in Auckland. Details are:— Sharp's Bakery, Ltd.—Objects, to carry on the business of bakers. Capital, £2,850, divided into £1 shares. Subscribers: Eric F. G. Sharp, 1,620 shares; Roland Elliott, 320 shares; Edward A. Bates, 540 shares; John W. Rothwell, 270 shares; Aubrey M. Woods, 100 shares. Hamill Brothers, Ltd.—Objects, to carry on business as auctioneers, land agents, etc. Capital, £I,BOO, divided into £1 shares. Subscribers: George Hamill. Alice Hamill, and Miles Hamill, 600 shares each. The Oakdale Bacon Company, Ltd.— Objects, to carry on • the business of bacon-curing and cold storage, and to deal in dairy produce, etc. Capital, £I{LOOO, divided into £1 shares. Subscribers. William Gray, 9,550 shares, and Sarah A. Gray, 450 shares. MINING NEWS OCCIDENTMO--UNA.—The manager reports for tISB piriod ended February 25: The quartz from the No. 1 reef in the stone® going north and south is of a splendid quality, carrying a large amount of silica and blend, and continues to show gold at each breaking down. Operations on the dropper have been discontinued for a time in order to concentrate on breaking quartz from the No. 1 reef in the stopes.