COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 9

COMMERCIAL.

FRUIT PROpIiCE MARKET. Auctioneers report .this-fruit and produce markets have been fairly tnisy during the week. In produce there iwas a marked filling off fn supply of potatoes at the latter end ? %f the week, and prices advanced. Onfims, which were In full supply, fell In pricfr,' and no immediate improvement is looked for.-' Green vegetables were eearce, and high values rnled. Grain and foKlder remained flrni. v,. - The fruit market -was again heavily supplied, and though there was a heavy falling off in..peaches and plums the demand' for these was poor. Dessert peare showed a eonelderable advance, while cooking corta sold-at low rates. Tomatoes, which were plentiful, .were hard to qnlt »t low pricey. Dejaert apples of prime quality iwere to hand in. Jargo quautlties •t. fair Talues... ■.. - - . Butter and eggs soW under keen bidding. Peol.try was penned ln_ large numbers. Potatoes, prime local.. *7io fT o/: onions 'JJime local to £7, Southern £6 to £6 f V to 1/10; honey, 3jd to 4d. ' 1 -—Apples, dessert, special 5/ to 6/, good 5/Q to 4/3, medium 2/6 to 3/- cookIng apples, extra 3/6 to 4/6. others 2/ to 3/. Tears. Bon Chretien 7/ to »/, other dessert 2/6 to 5/6; cooking, 2/6 to 4/. Plums. 1/ to 1/6. Peaches, special, 2/6 to 4/3, ordinary 1/ to 2/. Grapes, Indoor, 4jd to Bd, outdoor 8/ to 4/6 box; - Passion fruit. 1/3 to 2/10 box. Nectarines. 3/ to 4/ box. Quinces, good 3/ to 3/6, poor /6 caw. " • Poultry.—Hens, poor 1/3 to 1/e, good' 1/8 to 3/2. each; table roosters, extra good up to 5/ each; others 2/ to 4/; ducks, email- 1/ to 1/6, 1/3-to 2/6'; turkey gobblers 5/.. to turkey hens 2/6 to .3/9 i young pigs, 4/ to 10/. CANTERBURY GRAIN MARKET. .. ■>,':.. • OHBtSICMtrBCH, Friday.'' There Iβ apparently a lull in buying operations In the- -local- wheat market. Prices. are now about 2d per bushel less than they were at the beginning of the ■week. . - On. 'Wednesday sales could be effected' at G/10, and: since then .it has been difficult .to get more than 6/9. Buyers appear to tie -indifferent about making purchases; and in some cases C/S tuts been the best offer. A report was current jn Thursday that the market had advanced, and that 7/2 on trucks had been paid. Only one sale at this figure, however, Is reported to have taken place. This was a special , line of pearl which WB3 bought last week at a country station for seed purposes. - . . ■ - A San Francisco advice states that '6250 .bushels. <>f barley and 16.483 barrels of exported to New Zealand ivJamarjv. The i price of- barley was' set down, at -4/4. per huehtl. and flour at £11 5/jper. ton., , ■ . Thb oat, market keeps Very firm, mainly throligW tat f»p_cratlons of buyers to cover their Ausurallafl ,eoiitracts. "A" srade. ftartona are , now np Iβ 4/2 at conntrv stations. Duns are selling'almost equally ss'WeU, and Alsprians are reported to hav<i 'been sola its high as <&/ and 6.6 at ] country stations. Oatshfcjf chaff U vent firm, but with little offering. Totatoes are a little firmer. Though feir orders are yet cotplns in for immediate dellrery from £4 to 14 5/. per tan is off/VM* ._..',.- , ' .: _" -