AT THE MARTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 48, 26 February 1935, Page 4

AT THE MARTS.

POTATOES PLENTIFUL PLUM CROP ENDING. ONIONS CHEAPER. Good quality tomatoes are selling well, but there is no demand for inferior grades. Dessert apples, pears and lemons are meeting with a good demand, but there is only a fair demand for passion fruit. While there is a fairly good demand for Te Kauwhata grapes, hothouse grapes are slow of sale. The supply of plums is almost finished and fairly high prices are being received for good quality lines. Quotations are:— Apples: Gravenstein, 3/ to 6/6 per case; Munroes, 3/6 to 4/; Mobbs Royal, 3/ to 4/; Cox's Orange, 4/ to 8/. Pears: Williams' Bon Chretien, 7/6 to 9/6; Louis Bon of Jersey. 7/ to 0/. Passions: 2/6 to 4/. Peaches: Choice, in crates, 6/ to 9/; Late Reds, in cases, 2/ to 3/; Golden Queen, 3/ to 6/. Plums: Satsumas, 2/ to 3/6 per caee; choice dessert, 4/ to 6/. Blackberries: 4d to 5d per chip. Cape gooseberries: Id to 2%d per lb. Oranges: Californian, 27/6 to 35/ per ease; Jamaican, 25/ to 32/. Lemons: Cured, 10/ to 14/; others, 6/ to 9/. Tomatoes: Hutt, 3/ to 5/6; choice ripe, local, 6/ to 9/; others, 1/ to 2/6. Bananas: 18/ to 28/. Pines: Queensland, 14/ to 16/. Grapes: Te Kauwhata, 6/ to 8/; hothouse, Hamburg, 5d to 10d per lb; Colman, 10d to \f; extra choice higher. Coconuts: 14/6 per sack. Vegetables.

Heavy supplies of potatoes are arriving from Ohakune and Hawke's Bay districts, and. While pood quality lines are selling well, those affected by blight or rust are hard to quit. There are also heavy supplies of onions, which are selling at much lower prices than they did last week. The market ir short of cabbage, green peas and cnuliflower, and those of good nuality Are selling at very high prieeß. Good carrots and swedes are also in demand at higher prices than ruled last week. Quotations are:— Potatoes. 2/6 to 6/9 per bag; swedes. 2/ to 3/G: onions, ■Vβ to 5/0: kumaras. 4/ \o 6/; cabbages. 6/ to 15/ per park; on benches. 2/ to 4/ per dozen; cauliflowers, 2/(5 to 9/ per sack; pumpkins, Red Warrpn. 2/ to 7/ per sack: Best Crown, 10/ to 14/ per e\rt; cucumbers, 6d to 2/ per dozen; carrots, 1/ to 2/3; parsnips, 0d to 1/3; beet, 5d to 7d; turnips, 6d; radish, nd to ]/: spring onions, 1/3 to 2/ per bundle: spinach, 1/3 to 2/ per dozen; leeks, 2d to 3d per bundle; green peas, 7/ to 12/ per bag; French beans, 4/ to 0/; marrows. 1/ to 3/6 per dozen: citron melons, 3d to Od each: water melons. Id to Od; ietture, 2/6 to 7/6 per case; celery, rooking. 8d to 1/3 per bundle: dessert, 2/ to 3/; rhubarb, 1/ to 2/ per dozen. Poultry. At to-day's auctions the 6upply of poultry was medium and the demand was fairly keen. The prices paid remain unaltered. Selling rates were as follow: — Cockerels: Heavy breeds, prime, 2/6 to 4/6 each; not prime, 2/ up; light breeds, prime, 1/6 to 2/9; not prime, 9d up. Fat roosters: Heavy breeds, prime, 1/9 to 2/6; light breeds, 1/3 to 1/0. Fat henß: Heavy breeds, 1/0 to 2/6; light breeds. 1/ to 1/6. Pullets: Heavy breeds, best, 3/ to 4/6; smaller, 1/6 up; light breeds, host, 3/ to 4/6; smaller, 1/6 up. Drakes: Young, prime, 1/6 to 2/3: smaller, 0d up; old, 9d to 1/3. Ducks: Young, 2/ to 3/; old, 0d to 1/3.

Butter and Eggs. Hen eggs: First grade, \/V/z per dozen; B grade/ 1/OMs; C grade, SVfed. Duck eggs: First grade, 1/2 V& per dozen; B grade, 1/1%; 0 grade, ll'/fcd. Fanners butter, 7d to Od per lb.