COMMERCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 111, 20 February 1937, Page 9

COMMERCIAL NEWS

FRUIT AND PRODUCE. THE ASHBURTON MARKET. An acute shortage of fruit is being experienced on the Ashburton fruit and produce market. The main supply exists in tomatoes, hut even these are a little short and have shown an appreciable rise in price. It has been a lean week on the market, and supplies are not coming forward, while in most lines a price-rising tendency is in evidence. Bad weather is the cause of the jjyuit shortage. Plums are almost unprocurable, and have almost doubled in price during the week. Raspberries are coming forward only in odd supplies. Green peas have practically,, disappeared from the market. New season’s apples are just appearing, and cooking pears are also coming on to the market again. Prices are:— Bacon —9d and lOd a lb. Hams—ls to Is 2d. Wheat—Seconds 12s to 14s a sack. Honey—7id and 8d lb. Onions—2d and 2sd a lb. Walnuts—sd and 6d a lb.

Dessert Apples—7s and 8s a case, Gravensteins.

Cabbages—2d and 3d. Rhubarb—4d to 6d a bundle. Green Peas—ls 3d and Is 6d a pack. Lettuces —Id and Ijd each. _ Potatoes —id to Id a lb. Tomatoes—6d to 8d a lb. Peaches—-3s 6d and 4s 6d a case. Apricots—4s 6di to 5s 6d a case. Plums—2d and 2Jd a lb. Raspberries —8s and 9s a bucket. Nectarines —3s 6d to 4s 6d a case. Bon Oretian Pears—-2d and 2£d a 11) Apples—New season’s, 13 d and 2d lb. Cooking Pears—lid and 2d a Tb.

THE SHARE MARKET. The following sales were made en the * Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday:— ‘ LISTED STOCKS. Salas on ’Change.

* UNLISTED STOCKS. Sales on ’Change, 150 Woolworths (Syd., ord.) (2) 8 7 0 1(4) 8 G 9 100 Alloy Steel (Aust) ... 116 Sale reported rear deod reared odedeo Sales Reported. 120 Woolworths (Sydney - ord) ••• 8 8 6 8 8 0 Grain and iProduco .a trader arhet te GRAIN AMD PRODUCE. DUNEDIN MARKETS. DUNEDIN, February 19. The unusually long spell of wet weather has completely upset calculations in the milling wheat market. Millers have been anxious to secure supplies of new wheat to mix with poorer quality carried over from last season, but deliveries from all quarters have been held up and there are so far practically no lines of new wheat ion offer. Fowl wheat is nominally worth 5s 3d a bushel, sacks extra, f.0.b., for shipment and 5s 3d to 5s 6d, sacks extra, ex store Dunedin. Offerings of oats have been held up consequent on the wet weather. Quotations are inclined to ease, with A Gartons worth 3s 8d f.o.b.s.i. and B’s 3s sd. These prices will warrant payment of 3s, sacks extra, on trucks, country stations for A’s and 2s 9d for B’s provided distance from a. port is not too great. The chaff market remains unaltered. The value of best quality is £5 to

£5 5s a ton, sacks extra, ex store. The local price of potatoes can be given as round about £6 a ton ex store, sacks in. The market for seeds can be said to be more or less a weather one. If the unseasonable weather continues, the firming will .continue, but a spell of fine weather would no doubt have the opposite effect on the market. DAIRY PRODUCE IN LONDON. LONDON, February 18. The butter market is lifeless. Danish, 116 s (nominal prices). Choicest salted Australian and New Zealand S4s, unsalted New Zealand 925, Australian 90s to 91s. Cheese—New Zealand white 525, coloured 51s 6d. Australian is scarcely

10Q Com. Bank of Aust. 0 19 4 25 E.’. S., and A. Bank . 6 8 •6 100 Goldsbrough, Mort ... 1 17 11 500 N.Z. Refrig. (10s pd., cum div.) (3) 0 9 2 200 N.Z. Breweries (2)' 3 0 0 3 0 5 3 0 6 125 Aust. Glass ... 4 14 0 4 13 9 4 14 0 250 Broken Hill Propty (2) 4 5 4 4 5 6 (2) 4 5 4 4 5 6 15 Colonial Sugar (3) 43 0 0 750 Electro. Zinc (ord., cum div.) (4) 2 17 9 (4) 2 19 0 950 Electro. Zinc (pref., cum div.) (5) 2 19 6 (4) 3 0 11 (4) 3 0 10 330 G. J. Coles (7) 3 7 9 (2) 5 8 0 100 Hume Piye (Aust.) . 1 1 5 500 Morts Dock (5) 0 14 4 25 Woolworths (N.Z., ord.) 7 7 0 600 Waimumu Sluicing . 0 0 11* 1950 Mt. Lyell (3) 2 9 3 2 9 4 2 9 10 2 9 8 2 9 9, 2 9 11 2 9 9 2 9 8 (2) 2 10 6 2 10 7 (4) 2 10 6 (2) 2 10 7 2 10 6 (2) 2 10 7 2 10 8 (2) 2 10 9 150 Mount Morgan (2) 0 17 0 100 Rawang Tin 0 12 0

Sales Reported. 400 Natl. Insurance 0 18 1 400 N.Z. Refrig. (£1 pd., cum div.) 0 19 10 200 Beath and Go. ... 1 2 6 50 British Tobacco 2 12 9 100 Broken Hill Pty. (2) 4 5 4 15 Colonial Sugar (3) 43 0 0 300 Mount Morgan 0 17 0 150 Mount Lyell 2 10 0 2 10 9