FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 11

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

WELLINGTON MARKET REPORT FROM BROKERS Leary and Company, Limited, Wellington, report present values as follows: —Apples: Fancy Delicious, os, 6s; Cox's, Bs, 10s; Jonathans, 4s 6d, 5s 6d: Sturmers, ss, 6s; cookers, 4s 6d, 5s 6d bushel. Pears: Choice Coles, 7s, 8s; Nelis, 5s 6d, 6s 6d; Vicars, 4s, ss; Keiffers, ss. 6s; others, 4s, 4s 6d bushel. Cape Gooseberries: Choice, ss, 5s 6d half case. Passions: Choice larger, 5s 6d, 6s; others, 4s, 5s a box. Lemons, Choice cured, 16s, 18s; others, 10s, 13s a bushel. Quinces: Choice, Bs, 9s; others, 6s, 7s bushel. Grapes; Choice large, 2s, 2s 3d; others, Is 3d a ib. Tomatoes: Choice red, 7s 6d, 8s 6d; coloured, 7s, 7s 6d half case. Cucumbers: Choice, 16s 6d, 18s; others, 14s, 15s banana case. Tree Tomatoes: Choice, 6s 6d, 7s Gd: others, ss, 6s a box. Pumpkins: Choice red, 6s, 7s; others, 4s 6d, 5s 6d a sack. Celery: Choice, 3s, 4s dozen heads. Lettuce: Choice, 2s 6d, 3s 6d banana case. Kumeras: Choice, ss, Cs sugar bag. Cabbage: Choice, savoy, 9s, 11s a sack. Peas: Choice 15s, 17s half sack. French beans: Choice, 12s, 15s half sack. Black Leaf 40: Ten pound tins, 555; 21 b tins, 14s 6d tin; Sib bottles, 5s 3d each; loz bottles, 14s 6d a dozen. PRODUCE MARKET EASIER . POSITION IN CANTERBURY i-'i'css Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Owing to lack of business, there is a tendency on the local grain and produce market for prices to recede. Business has recovered a little since the holidays, but still lacks animation, and there is not a great volume of it. Prices for potatoes have slipped back still further, today’s quotations being £ 3 to £ 3 5s a ton. on trucks. Throughout the province digging is now in progress, and generally speaking the crop is satisfactory. Potatoes are being sent to the North Island in such large quantities that the markets there are being over-supplied. It is anticipated that about 16,000 sacks will be shipped from Lyttelton this week. The Waipiata left yesterday with about 4,226 sacks for Auckland. The Kurow left Timaru yesterday with 1,600 sacks for Auckland* and will return to Lyttelton this week, when it is expected that she will lift 10.000 sacks of potatoes.

The shipments of potatoes which had gone from Lyttelton this season up to Saturday last are:—For Auckland. 21,721 sacks; for Wellington, 11,020 sacks; for Napier and Gisborne, 3.010 sacks; for West Coast of North Island, 7,807 sacks; for West Coast of South Island, 3,538 sacks.

There is very little change in wheat prices, which are quoted as follow: Tuscans, 5s Sd to 5s 9d a bushel, on trucks; Hunter’s, 5s 9d to 5s lOd; Pearl, 5s lid to 6s. Fowl wheat is worth 5s 6d on trucks at handy stations.

There is not a great deal of business passing on the oats market. A Gartons can be readily disposed of at Ss to 3s 6d on trucks, and B grade at 3s to 3s 3d.

The chaff market is a little firmer than it was, good, bright chaff being quoted today at £5 on trucks. Business in small seeds at the present time is negligible.

HEAVY SELLING IN U.S.A. Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Tues. A psychological reaction based on many unfavourable company reports for the first quarter has brought about two days of sharp recession in the stock market. , A reduction in the price of copper, and declines in wheat and cotton prices caused drastic selling, and all sections of the market were affected despite desperate efforts of the “bulls" to stay the reaction. United States Steel reached a new low level, and Anaconda Copper went below 60 for the first time in three years. The losses throughout the list were, however, in great part recovered in the final hour upon short covering.