COMMERCIAL NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 133, 16 March 1940, Page 8

COMMERCIAL NEWS

FRUIT AND PRODUCE.

THE ASHBURTON MARKET. . Prices at the fruit and produce market at Ashburton yesterday were as follow \— Cabbages—New season’s, 3d to 4d. Chaff—4s to 4s 6d a sack. Potatoes—ld and lid lb, 3/6 a sugarbag. Wheat—lßs and-203 a sack. Honey—Sd and 9d a lb. Onions—New season’s'lid and 2d lb, 4s. 6d to 5s . a sugar-bag. Bacon—lOd and Is a lb. Apples—New season’s Worcester Permains 5s 6d and 6s 6d, Cox’s Orange 6s 6d and 7s a case.. Lettuce—2d and 3d each. Green Peas—2s to 2s 6d a peck. Tomatoes—2kl and 3d lb. Peaches—3d and 4d lb. Cucumbers —2s 6d and 3s a case. Butter Beans—2d and 2id lb. Rhubarb —6d bundle. Nectarines —3d and 4d lb. Marrows—4d and 6d each. Plums—lid to 2d lb. Shallots—3d lb. ' Duchess Pears—2Rl and 3-Jd lb.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

Grain and produce markets have shown little change this week. Milling wheat • lias practically ceased to come •forward and the general opinion among merchants and millers is that comparatively little is being held for the increment which goes on next month. Little business is passing in seeds, for which the autumn demand seems to he well past its peak. A few lines of cocksfoot are being offered from time to time, and values vary according to quality. Sales of potatoes have taken place at £3 a ton, and- that is still the quotation for more distant stations with £3 5s being offered at the handier stations. Partridge peas are coming forward fairly freely and merchants are offering from 6s 9d to 7s, according to. station and quality.

The following quotations are to farmers on trucks at country sidings, unless otherwise indicated:— Wheat-Milling, f.0.b., Tuscan 5s 6d, Hunters 5s Bd, Pearl 5s lOd, Marquis Gs. (Final payment of 3d a bushel on alLwheaWat end of year). : ' Gats—A Gartons 3s 3d to 8s 9d, B Gar toils 3s to 3s 3d, Algerians 3s 6d to 3s-9d, r Dims (dark heavy) 4s 3d to 4s 9d. W; ■ . ’ Ryegrass—Perennial 6s to 6s 6d, Italian 6s to 6s 6d. Cocksfoot—7d to 9d. White clover—ls 6d to 2s. - Red Clover —7d to 9d. Partridge Peas—Up to 6s 9d. • .Chaff—£s (handy stations).Potatoes (May-Juno delivery) £3 for distant stations, and £3 5s for handy stations. , • Onions—£s THE SHARE MARKET. . The following sales were made on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday : LISTED STOCKS. Sales on 'Change.

Sales Reported.

UNLISTED STOCK. 400 Blackball Creek ... 0 011 KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER. DIVIDEND UNCHANGED. DUNEDIN, March 15. At a meeting of directors of Kempihorne, Prosser and Company’s (N.Z.) Drug Company, Ltd., this afternoon, a dividend of 44- per cent, making 8 per cent; for the year (unchanged) was.' recommended. A. H. FENN, J. A. 11. Fenn submits the following report of poultry sales on March 15: 350 head entered and sold. White hens (moulty), lOd to Is, heavy Is Gd to is fld; light cockerels, Is 9d to 2s -Id, heavy 2s 7d to 3s Gd; ducks, Is 8d to 25.;. .geese,. 2s to 2s 3d —all at per each. —(Aclvt.)

£ s. d. 200 Broken Hill Proprictary (2) 2 12 0 ICO "Woolworths (Sydney, ord.) (cum div.) 1 4 s 100 Ngahere • 1 9 0

£3C0 N.Z. Govt. . Deben tures, 4 p.c. Ins., 1943-46 102 2 G ’•100' Westport - Stockton 1: Coal (lato Thursday) • ; ord.) 0 2 9 100 Eleetro; Zinc (2) 3 1 G 50 G. J. Coles (lato sale Thursday) 4 0 0 100 N.Z. Farm. Fertilizer 1 0 6 250 Electrolytic Zino (pref.) ... (2) 3 3 0 100 Taranaki Oilfields ... 0 7 6 400 Taranaki Oil Developments (late Thursday) 0 3 2 0 3 y