PRODUCE IN PALMERSTON.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 16

PRODUCE IN PALMERSTON.

The Dominion Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, reporting on their usual weekly sale held on Thursday, state that due to the Manawatu Show being held, a smaller entry of pigs than usual came forward. Competition was very keen, resulting in weaners selling up. to 265; stores to 375; and light porkers to £2 Bs. Poultry was in heavy supply, a total clearance being made at prices a little in excess of -, last week's realisations, Black Orpington hens selling to 13s per pair and good whites to 9s per pair. Produce was in exceptionally heavy demand and. with the exception of lettuce, which was a glut on the market, all other lines sold particularly well. We quote as follows:—Pigs: Best weaners, 24s to 26s each, medium 20s to 23s s small and backward 16s 6d to 17s; slipes, 26s to 30s; stores, 32s to 375; light porkers, 41s to 48s. Poultry: Best White Leghorn hens, 8s to 9s per pair; Black Orpington hens, 10s to 13s; light hens, 5s 8d to 7s; heavy cockerels, 7s to 9s per pair; light cockerels, 5s to 6s per pair; ducks, 3'oung 9s to 11s per pair, 01d.6s to 8s per pair; roosters, 6s to 7s per pair; hens and chicks, 10s to 23s each: pullets, 4s to 5s each; this season's cockerels, 6d to Is each. Produce: Apples, Delicious 15s to 17s per case, Stunners, 9s 9d to 12s 6d per case; hothouse tomatoes, 2s to 2s 5d per lb; gooseberries, 4d to 6d' per lb; cauliflowers, 14s to 23s 3d per sack, cases 8s to 13s; cabbage, 3s to 4s 6d per case, sacks 4s 6d to 8s 3d; lettuce, Is to 2s 6d per case; carrots, 11s to 13s per, dozen bunches, cases 20s to 30s; spinach, 5s to 10s per case; asparagus, 10s to 11s per dozen; rhubarb, 4s to 7s per dozen; white turnips, 7s to 10s 6d per case; parsnips, 8s to ! 10s 6d per case; green peas, 6d to 7£d per lb; broad beans, 4d to 5Ad per lb; (spring onions, 2d to 6d- per bunch; leeks, 5s to 7s per case; new potatoes,' 3Jd to 4d~ per lb; onions, 5s to 6s per sugar-bag.