FRUIT MARKET.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20382, 31 October 1931, Page 16

FRUIT MARKET.

CHRISTCHURCH. Vegetables have been ia over-sapply throughout tho week, and prices liavo been extremely low for all varieties. Oranges, bananas, and lemons ore selling freely at payable priceß to growers. High quality apples are selling at profitable prices, but inferior quality fruit is unsaleable. A shipment of Australian oranges 13 due next week, also a shipment of Fijian bananas, for which there has been s steady enquiry. Quotations are: —Apples, Delicious, per case up to 10s; apples, cooking, per caso 7s 6d; coconuts, per sack 17s; gooseberries, per lb up to 4d; lemons, Auckland, per case 5s to 10s; lemons, iliidura, per case up to 17s 6d; oranges, Victorian, per case up to 15s; pineapples, Sydney, per case up to 18s 6d; pears, dessert, per case tomatoes, dessert, per lb up to 2s; asparagus, per dozen bundles up to 9s; beet, per dozen bundles 4d to 6d; cabbages, per dozen Is to 4s 6d; cauliflowers, per dozen up to 2s 6d; carrots, per dozen id to 8d; cucumbers, hothouse, per lb Cd to 9d; kumeras, per lb up to ISd - leeks, per bundle lid to 2d; lettuce, per 'dozen up to 2s 6d; new potatoes, per lb up to ljd; potatoes, per sugar-bag 9d to Is; onions, local, per sugar-bag Cs 6d; onions, per cwt 13s 6d; parsnips, per sugarbag Is; potatoes, per sack 2s to 3s; radishes, per dozen Cd to lOd; rhubarb, per dozen up to 4s 6d; spring onions, per dozen Od to 9d; turnips, per dozen 6d to 13 2d; spinach, per dozen Cd to Is Gd; swedes, per sugar-bng Is; eggs, first grade JOd to lid, second graue Did to 30d; duck eggs 10idDUNEDIN. !~THE PHE3S Special Servics.'j DUNEDIN, October 30. Business has been brisk in the fruit marts during the week. A keen demand has been experienced for practically all classes ot fruit and vegß tables. Apples are still plentiful and prices remain unchanged. A shipment of Fiji bananas will arrive next week en tho Wingatui. Tlus vessel will also 'bring a supply of Californian The Waiuui arrived from Melbourne airect on Tuesday last. She carried a much smaller shipment of navel oranges than usual, and prices showed an advance of about,so ■ner cent The demand was greater than the supply, and all lots were readily taken up It will be three weeks before a further supply of oranges reaches the market. Lemons are in short' supply, and the market ii firm The Waikouaiti, expected m about en days' time, will bring a mixed consignment of New South Wales fruits.■ house tomatoes are arriving more plentitu 1> from Canterbury, and prices are a little easier.

PEODUCE MARKET. MELBOURNE MUCKS. MELBOI' RNE, October !iO. Flour —i' 3SsCd a ton. Bran—£4 103. Pollartl—=M Oats—23 2d to 'is tU. Barley—English. 2s 0a to -s .a. Maizft—2« lid to 3s. ENGLISH QUOTATIONS. (UKllEt» rr.889 ASSOCIATION—n* W.ECTBIO TELtCtIAPH- COPTJIICUT.) LONDON, Ocloljfcr 20. Flour is firm. Australian, ex store, 295. Outs oro steadily held. I'cas and licans nro quiftt. DAIRY PRODUCE. LONDON QUOTATIONS. (vxrrxit PRIBB ASSOCIATION —Jll ELECTRIC TELEOIIArU —COt'TEJOMT.) LONDON, October 29. Butter—Danish, easier, 130s. , ot , h " s steady. Choicest salted New Zoaland, 118s to lSOs; Australian, 112s to 113s; unsalted the name. « . . ... „_ ■) Cheese —Quiet. New Zealand, whito Onu coloured GBs to C9a.

D&lgety and Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from Samuel Pago and Son. dated London, October 29th: Butter —Market arm, but Danish weaker. Quotations: Danish 1308 to 1325, finest New Zealand 11.4s to 120s, finest Australian unsalted 112s to 114s, salted 112s to 114s, g.a.q. 100 a to 103 a. „ Cheese—Maiket firm. Quotations: New Zealand white and coloured 67s to 695, Canadian epot white and coloured 68s to 70s. A, S. Paterson and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable mesßage from tlieir principals, J. and J. Lonsdale and Co. (London), Ltd.: — Butter—Market quietly firm. Danish 1313, New Zealand 115s to ItSs, Australian Ills to 318s. , , „„ Cheese—White 60s to 709, coloured 03* to 695, standardised 2s less. The National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Ltd., has received the, following cable message from their principals, A. J. Mills and Co., Ltd., London:— , Butter—Market Arm. New Zealand, finest 120s, flrßts 116s, unsalted 118s to 120s; Danish, 130s; Australian. 112s to 114s. Cheese —Markot is firm. New Zealand, white and coloured, CBs to 60s; Canadian, white and coloured, 68s to 70s. MINING. GOLDEN DAWN G.M., LTD. The following is the mine report for the week ending October 24th, 'l93l*:——■ In the gtopea on No. 1 reef, above No. 3 level, four machines have been working breaking ore and also breaking mullock to fill the old stopes. The reef here averages 3ft wide, and the ore broken looks very well. In tho stopes on No. 8 reef, above ho. 3 level, two machines have been working breaking ore and also breaking mullock to fill the old stopes. The reef here averages 3ft wide and has improved thiß last stope, and at pre* Bent looks very well. GOLDEN POINT G.M. CO. TTie mine manager reports under data October 24th: — During the week the mill ran 117 hours, a total of 27 hours being unworked in connexion with opening day. The collection of rough amalgam taken from the tables during the two days was cleaned, and that from the rife in launder slip plates added, giving for the period 80o« of amalgam, thin exclusive ot the gold in the concentrates. The mine will be closed down for Labour Day, and a start will then be made in the construction Of a flotation cell, with which it Is proposed to treat the tailings fro-m No. 2 Wilfiey. Careful experiments huve shown that the fine mineral contents of the tailings contain values approximating 3dwt per toil, so that if a large proportion of this mineral can be saved by flotation, the final residues will not be worth further treatment, in which event they can be released into tho creek. The assays from the samples of ore taken by Mr G. W. Thomson, M.1.M.M., during his insneetion of the mine were as follows: — Nos. 1 and 2—-Quartz, 9dwt 2gr per ton; B °Nos. 8 d loss 15dwt 22gr per ten; schißt, Bdwt 22gr. Nob 5 and 6—Quartz, los' lldwt Bgr _par ton; schist and stringer quarts, 6dwt 12gr. KING SOLOMON DEEP LEAD. (PBZS9 ISaOCIXTIOX TIMGS4M.) INVEItCAftGILL, October 80. j The manager of King Solomon Deep Lead, Ltd., reports that the wash-up for five days operations 'totalled 38oz 13dwt.