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Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1920, Page 2

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DAIRY PRODUCE. ETC. RETAIL TItICES, NEW PLYMOUTH. ». d. Butter Creamery (pats) 1 7 Registered dairy 1 li Separator i 1 5 Egßs , 2 9 Lnrd 1 3 Hams 1 7 Sides Eacon IS 5% Rashers Bacon Is lOd Rashers Ham 2a 2d .Milk (quart) •. 7d FRUIT. leaches (cooking) , (! roaches (desert) ~ 8 drapes 1 9 Apples (Canadian Jonathans), new season (id Lemons 3s to 4s per doz. Bananas 4d Cookiiiß Apples (new reason) 3d Oranges—Callfornian Sunkist 4s doz. Tomatoes (hothouse) 8d and lOd. Black Currants 10 BUYING PRICES. ButterRegistered dairy , 1 4 Creamery (pats) 1 6 Separator 1 3^ Kfgs ;., 2 6 Futiffus 4

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The Department of Apiculture has received the following cablegram, dated February 28, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London : Meat—Xo change in price, but It Is expected Imported mutton will be reduced to 9<J per lb. In a week or two. Follow]*? are from March l (mutilated word) imported rabbits, wholesale (mutilated word), not less than "81b In crates, !iOs per crate; large, 601b, 40s; young, 481b, :18s; sma.ll, 301b, 283; raextmuim retail price Is Id per lb, buyers taking skin, but only B%d if retailer retains skin, in each case rabbit weighed In skin. Hemp—Manila, market weaker and tendency downward. Present selling price of 3 grade Ja.miary-'Marrfh tc March-May shnptnents, £7O. New Zealand (mutilated word), and market Is easier. Hlghpolnts, on spot, now quoted at £64; January-March shlpmotit, £6l; fair, January-March shipment, £59. Wool sales close to-day. Rood competi'.lon throughout aeries compared with last series. Prices, fine ctossbreds maintained. Coarse and inferior generally (mutilated word) and prices ha.ve declined 5 per cent, to 7% per Cent. Current values erossbreds: fflne, 2s lOd to 4a; medium. Is lOd to 2s 7d; coarse, Is 5d to (mutilated word). Superior merinos radt strong demand from America and have advanced 10 per cent. A further copy of the cablegram will be Issued as soon c.i the corrected repeat copy Is received. CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET. Chrtstchurch, March 2. The five days' rain has affected the delivery of produce lines, but business remains active. Purchases of Algerian oats continue, but the offers are now assuming reduced proportions. There are fewer Gartons also offering, farmers evidently awaiting a more buoyant market. Chaff Is worth £5 to. £5 10s per ton at wayside stations. A good deal has been secured In fulfilment of northern orders, but shipping facilities are far from sufficient. The northern demand remains firm. Wet and muggy weather will have a detrimental effect on wheat samples. There are large areas In stock awaiting the mill, and the past week's weather has been of a nature to start it growing. On the heavier lands this is more pronounced, fawners taking tile risk of the wea,ther in preference to the labor of loading in. Ryegrass prices continue firm, with little alteration from the recent high prices. Reports from the country are that' the weather has producod many Instances of blight in the potato crop, which previously had been looking extremely Woll. Evidences of blight are general. The market Is opening on easier lines, fid per ton being offered on trucks for prompt delivery, £.l to £Ti 10s for April-May delivery. Ko price Is being Quoted for flour.