COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7944, 19 January 1906, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

fp HIGH COMMISSIONEK'S FEPOPT. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jancary 18. The Department of Industries and Commerce has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner, dated Loudon, 17th iu atant:—"The wool sales have commenced. There is keen competition and a general and active demand. The market is Arm, especially for fine orossbreds of all grades and merinos at the same price as last sale. The market prospects are faTourable." It weekly market pepobt. (Special to Age). The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., report as follows:-~Maize, 4s 96 per bushel. Wbent 3s 8d per bashel. Oats, prime feed, 2s 6d. Oats, crashed, 2s lOd. Seed oats, Duns, Algerians, White Tartars, 3s Barley, feed, 2s 6d. Cape barley, seed, 2s 9d. Peas, Prussian Blues 4s per bashel. Rice meal, £5; a good pig or poultry food. Pollard, JE6 per ton. Bran, £5 per ton. Rice, broken, 7s 6d per lOlbs in 2001b bags. Chaff, prime oaten sheaf, £4 per ton at country stations. Straw, 50s per ton. Potatoes, Kidney, £9, Rounds £6 to £7. Onions, \ £5 per ton. Butter, separator. Bd. t Eggs, fresh. Is. Cheese, best fac-, - V tory mediums 5%d. Honey, 4d to 4}£d per lb. Bacnn, factory sides roils hams to Bd. Dressed pork, 56's to 80's 4d, 80's to 100's 3>£d. Cabbage. 3s to 3s 6d per peck Green peas, 7d to 8d per sack. Rhubarb, 2s per doz. Apples, local desserts 4s, coouers 3s per hall' case. Apricots, 6s 6d per half case. Black currants, 8s per half case. Tomatoes, 12s to 14s per half case. Plums, Cherry 4s 6d, Blue 5b per half oase. Peaches, 5s 6d per half case. Raspberries, in buckets, 4d per lb. Poultry—Table roosters 4s 6d to ss, cockerels 6s for good birds, table hens 3s 6d to 4s, ducks 4s to 4s 6d, all at per pair. Ccoksfoot, 4)£d to per lb. Ryergass, 4s 9d per busLel. Gowgrass, colonial, 70s per cwt.