COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 299, 15 December 1917, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

■ m FRUIT AND PRODUCE. Business in the fruit" and produce market j I has been good during the week. Much '■ larger quantities of local .fruit have been dealt with. Prices for all choice lines axe high, with a good demand. .Sydney fruit, •especially. sound and choice oranges and j cherries, sold well. | I The potato market is, well supplied, and I prices should recede before Christmas. There is no demand for old potatoes. Local onions are now coming in fairly well, and I prices should also decline In the immediate future.'; ■ " I Fresh eggs are much firmer, and a good ! demand exists for farmers'- butter. • Poultry was in good supply, old hens sell* I ing, well, while heavy young roosters ietched . I record prices. Field Produce.—Potatoes, local, prime, i new; .best, !)/ cwt, good 8/ to 8/6. old Li to 12/6 sack; onions, local. 2*d per lb. Dairy Produce. —Batter, farmers', in prints, 1/3 to 1/4 U>; eggs, fresh, 1/8* dozen. Fruit.—Apples, local, coloured, extra superior, dessert, 15/6 case; grapes, local,, hothouse. 2/3 per lb; plumo, English varia i ties, best,.6/ to 7/ case, others 5/ to 6/: tomatoes, hothouse, best 1/ per lb, good lOd to lid; oranges, Sydney, 20/ case; lemons, local, prime, 14/ to 18/ case, larg/ 6/ to. 7/, local, rough and coarse, 4/"; , cherries, 10ca1,.1/ per lb; passion fruit, 12/ case; gooseberries, 9/ per box; walnuts, 1/ ■ per lb; peanuts, 6d per lb. : Poultry. good, 3/ to 4/4 each, | small 2/3 to 2/10; table roosters, 5/6 to ! 7/11 reach,', others' 3/6 to 4/10; ducks, old, 2/ to 2/10 each, young 3/ to 5/10; geese, 5/10 to 6/8 each; chicks, 2d to 1/4 each; ducklings, 6d to 2/4 each; turkey gobblers, 10/ to 22/ tacit; turkey hens,.6/ to 10/ each. .; v;V;;. LONDON MARKETS. CEREALS. Peas.and beans are firm at full rates. Wheat is In moderate quantity, and is selling.at late rates. No cargoes are offering: V. - , Flour is scarce and in strong demand. Prices are unchanged. * Oats are quiet. . ' .. BUTTER. Another sixth of tbe'amount applied for toy the trade will ibe distributed on Monday, ' making the total distribution in December about 6,000 tons. There Is the keenest demand at maximum prices. Replying to a question in the 'House of Commons, Mr. .T. R. Clyncs declared that profiteering In j butter -was impossible. a j