STILL HIGHER!

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 4

STILL HIGHER!

" THE TRICE OF PRODUCE. On Thursday it was announced that iu two : weeks onions (goods • sorts) had ' riseri from £7 to £10 per ton. A rise' usually' makes a riso, but it was not'expected that 1 ■ it would be neatly so sudden- as lias been the case. On inquiry at - the" markets yes- ; torday, our representative.- : was informed '• that the price had\advanced to £17. Olio • leading"'merchant hacl'cabled ' for ' a' "quota-;; tion to Sydney, and tho reply Was " £14," Sydney." This, with duty' (£l 'pcr ton)',' freight (15s.' per ton);/ wharfage and cartago', brings the prico up to. £16,' and then—' ' well, people have to live. The onions now on tho market aro mostly 'Australian; Thoro arc a fow coming in from Marlborough; aud a very fow front the i\fanciwatu. Tho Australian climate is drier than ours, and their onions keep better, but when botli-are'good J and sound tlicro is no diffoi'cnco: in tho prjco ' they command. ' "'. "Oats, I "'said our authority,arc almost unobtainable. We liavo been'importing from : Australia and Canada. Australia has shut down on us, but wo still ' have a stock of ' Canadian oats—good ones : they/are;' too.'"' The price is -Is. 2d., having gone up 7d;'ill a week. ' ' '"! ' ' '' '' "Maize is also on tho rise. The'pricf. ' has gone up Gd. during the last week, arid '' bright samples are soiling at ss. i bushel."