AT THE MARTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 4

AT THE MARTS.

POULTRY. At to-day's auctions the supply of poultry wae heavy and the demand wae firm. The prices paid remained.practically unaltered. Selling rates were as follow: — Cockerels, heavy breeds, prime. 3/ to 5/ each; not prime, 1/6 up; light breeds, prime. 1/9 to 3,6; not prime, 6d up; fat roosters, heavy breede, prime, 2/ to 2/6; light breeds, 1/3 to 1/9; fat hene, heavy breeds, 2/6 to 3/C; light breeds, 1/3 to 1 '9; pidlete, heavy breeds, beet, 5/ to 6/; smaller. 2 up; light breeds, best, 3/ to 6/; smaller, 2/ up; drakes, young, prime, I'o to 2.; smaller, 9d tip; ducks, \oung. 2'6 to 3/; old, 0d to 1.6; drakes, 'old, 9d to 1/0. . ,

WELLINGTON PRICES

Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets thie week are quoted as follow:—-

Apples, new season's, Gravensteins. 7/6 t-i 0 6 per bushel: cookers, 6/ to 8/; Cox's Orange Pippin, 7, to 10/; peare, WJS.C., 8 to- 12 6 per three-quarter case; L.8.J.. 8/ to 10., G: greengages, 8/ to 11,6 per half c.i*e; peaches, choice dessert, 7/3 to 8/3; cookers, 5/ to 6/; .apricot*,■ choice, 6/ to 0/; others, 47. to 5/i nectarines, 7/ to 11/; plums. Purple Kings, 8' to 10/; Burbanke, 67 to !>/; Bin*" Diamonds, 6/ to 7/; Doris, 15/ to 8/; Monarch, 6/ to 7/: raspberries, 10/ to 11.6 per tin; cucumbers, outside, 3/ to 4-' per half case; lemons, cured, 10/ to 14.' per bushel case; others, 5/ to 8/; kmnaras, H. 8., 10/ to 11/ per sugar bag; green peas, 3/ to 9/ per sack; marrows, 1/ to 1/6 per case; tomatoes, local hothouse, 5d to per lb; Nelson, red, 7/ to 10/ per lii'W caee; coloured, 5/6 to 8/; srapoe, hothouse, Od to 1/ per Ib; French beans and scarlet runners, 2d to 4d; potatoes. 4/ to 7/ per cwt; pumpkins, 6/ to 10/ per Mck; cauliflowers, 5/ to 7/ per banana case; lettuce. 3d to 1/9; spinach, 3/ to 9/; swedes. 1/6 to 2/6; carrots, 6d to 1/ per bunch; parsnips, 3d to 6d; beetroot, Id to 2d; cabbage, 1/ to 3/ per banana case; onions, Pukekohe, 5/ to 5/6; rhubarb. 2/ to 4/ per dozen bunches; egge, 1/8 to 1/0 per dozen; walnuts, Choice, 5d to 6d per lb.