WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9707, 1 February 1910, Page 6

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

(Special to the Wairarapa Age). The Npw Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., report':—Fruit is in good supply, and the market generally speak- J ing about the same as last week. : Plums are still at a low figure. , Peaches have firmer, and demand very good. Vegetables, excepting j marrows and lettuce, are in strong demand. Potatoes are coming in in large quantities, and demand is easier. Poultry is weaker, with increasing supplies. Eggs are arriving in large quantities, but find ready sale at Is Id, with one penny extra for special well-known lines. Onions are now quoting from Canterbury. Our bhipments of new season's grass seeds are now coming to hand, and farmers' orders commencing to come in. Cockstoot promises to be of excellent quality this year. We have this year largely extended our fruit trade, but still have the capacity for a greater increase, and we hope present suppliers who are satisfied with our efforts on their behalf, will show appreciation by advocating neigh bours to ship our way, to the benefit of themselves, the company and the general protscii< n < t tne industry. Potatoes, best Hutt £7, medium £5, others £4 10s per ton-/ cabbage, ijhoice 5a 6d to 6s, ordinary 4s per sick; green Deaa, 5d per peck; carrot?, Hutt Is dozen; turnips, white 4d to 6d dozen; swedes, 3s per sack; vegetable marrows, Is 6d per sack, good demand;.lettuce, choice Is 6d, fair 6d per case, over supply; spinach, best 2s 6d per case; French beans, choice Hutt Id, other lots Jd to fd per lb; cucumbers, hothouse Is to 3s dozen, outside grown 3s 6d per banana case; broad beans, Id per lb; spring onions, lOd dozen bundles; radish, 6d to 8d dozen bundles; tomatoes, Hutt 5s 6d to 6s 6d, Nelson 45,6 d to 5s 6d per half case; rhubarb, 6d dozen bundles, poor demand; apples, cookers large 3s 6d, small 2s 6d case; apples, dessert well coloured 6s, others 5s per case; pears, dessert 6s, cookers large 3s, small 3s per half case; apricots, choice large Bs, medium 6s per half case; peaches, choice dessert Wiggins ss, medium 3s 6d to 4s, others 2s to 3s half case; plums, Blue Diamonds 2s 6d. Ogans Is 6d, Burbanks 2s, Victoria 2s, Greengage 6s, Satsuma 2s 6d, Wixen 2s per half case; butter, best spearator printed wrappers 8d to 9d, separator bulk 7Jd to Bd, dairy pats 7d io 8d; cheese, best factory mediums old 6d, new 5Jd to 5Jd per lb, loaf 6£d lb; dressed pork, 70's to 90's 3|d to 3fd, 90's to 100's 3§d, baconers 3d, choppers heavy 2i; our weekly pork sales held each Friday during summer. Eggs, Is Id to Is 2d per dozen, good demand; bacon factory sides 6£d, rolls 7d per lb; honey, demand is weak now jam fruits available, 60's 4d per lb; beeswax, strong enquiry, consignments would realise high values; fungus, keen demand at 5Jd lb: walnuts, scarce, early lots would realise high values; tallow, tins 22s cwt; wool sheepskins and hides -Bpecial sale on February 11th, 1910. Onions, Melbourne Globes, £8 par ton; strawberries, Is to Is 2d, medium lOd per lb; raspberries, 5s to 5s 6d per bucket; nectarines, clwice 4s medium 3s 6d, small 3s per half case; grapes, best Hutt lOd, Nelson Bcl to lOd per lb. Poultry.—Cockerels 5s 6d for good birds; small 3s Gd, table roosters 4s, table hens 3s 6d, small 2s 6d to 3s. ducks la r j a 6s, small 3s 6d to 4s per pair; turkey gobblers 9d per lb, hens Bd'per lb live weight. Maize, 4s to 4s 3d per bushel; wheat, ; 4s 8d to 4s lOd per bushel; barley, feed 3s 3d per bushel; barley, Cape 3s 6d per bushel; horse beans, 4s per bushel; partridge peas, 5s per bushel; Prussian Blue peas, 5s 6d per bushel; barley meal, special j quality £5 per ton: Sharps, £4 5s to £4 10s per ton; bran, £4 5s to , £4 10s per ton; chaff, prime oaten * sheaf £3 bs to £3 15s per ton: hay, J prime £3 15s to £4 10s per tor.; 1 sucrosine, £6 10a per ton; 1 me, j crushed, agricultrual, 20s per ton j delivered free at any railway station in truck loads; superphosphates, * Mount Lyell, best on market £5 per ton; straw, wheaten £2 5s per ton; | straw, oaten £2 2s 6d per ton; lin- j seed oil cake, genuine £l3 per ton; oats, feed 2s 3d to 2s 6d per bushel; oats, seed Gartons, Duns, 2s 8d . per bushel; oats, Algerians 2s 4d j

per bushel; oats, crushed 2s ?d per bushel. Messrs R. Woodhouse and Co. report the following sales and closing buyers' quotations in connection with the Wellington Stock Exchange:— Sales: Taranaki Petroleum, 7s; Syl, vias, 3s 7d; Hauraki 6s 4d, 6s sd, 5s lid, Saxon Is 7d, Talisman, 44s Junrtions 29s 6d, 29s 7£d, 29s 3d; Ross, paid, 8s l£d, Bs. Buyers: Na tional Bank, £6 Is New Zealand Bank, £9 9s; Wellington Trust Loan, £7 4s 6d; Stockton Coal, 6s 9d; Kauri Timber, paid, 14s 7d; Leylands, 3s 3d; Sharlands, preference, 21s; Kuranui Caledonian, Is; May Queens, 3s; Sylvias, 3s 6d; Hauraki, 5s 8d; Broken Hills, Is; Talisman, 4s 9d; Junctions, 295; Consolidated Goldfields, 18s; Progress, 13s 3d; Ross, pdid 7s 9d.