COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 22 June 1918, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET. 'Business in the fruit and produce markets during the week has again been good, and prices for prime lines of local fruit have advanced. Shipments to hand have not been excessive. Choice apples and pears are in demand. Island oranges and bananas have come to hand. Potatoes are lv good supply, and a good demand exists for prime quality. Onions are being picked over, and are in excess of requirements. Loose vegetables are- selling better. Farmers' butter and fresh eggs are in good demand at prices quoted. Poultry is selling at high prices. There is a good demand for all hues of well-conditioned birds. Field Produce. —Potatoes, prime, £9; onions, local, £10 10/; pumpkins, 5/ to 0/; kumaras, 0/. Dairy Produce. —Butter, farmers', in prints,' 1/4; eggs, fresh, 2/8. Fruit.—Apples, local, coloured, extra superior, dessert, 0/ to 10/ case, medium 7/ to 7/0; ■ cookers, best 6/ to 0/6, good cookers 5/ to 5/6. Pears, up to 12/6, 13/, good 7/ to 8/. cookers 7/. Tomatoes, hothouse, per lb, best !>d, good 7d. Oranges, local, Poorman, 6/0 to 7/ case, Island 10/6. Mandarins, Sydney, 17/6 c_,se. Lemons, local, prime, 0/, rough and coarse 4/. Passion fruit. 13/ box. ' Walnuts, 1/3 per lb; peanuts, old. . Poultry.—liens, best heavy up to 4/. good 2/6, 3/: table roosters, best heavy 5/ to 6/, good 3/, 4/; ducks, best, 4/6 to '."1/6:' geese. 5/6; turkey gobblers, 11/ to 13/; turkey hens, 5/ to G/. . SOUTHERN PRODUCE MARKETS. CHRISTCr.I'Kt-lt. Friday. The grain market generally \& very quiet. A little wheat, both milling' and fowl, continues to come forward, and Is readily taken j at Government prices. Some concern is I now being felt nt the probable shortage of I wheat and that no steps are yet announced as' to what will be done to make up the | deficiency. It is urged that if the millere ] had more good Australian wheat for milling I purposes more use could be made of the I inferior lines. Potatoes form the only line that is moving, and these somewhat slowly, as growers are not offering very freely. The drizzling rain thnt set In last night may continue, and will put a cheek upon deliveries. Sales have iheen made during ( the month at £5 16/ to £15 at country I stations. A fair quantity of both potatoes j and oat sheaf chaff went North during the week. A consignment of chaff has been shipped to Wellington and railed to Napier. j