COMMERCIAL PRODUCE AND FRUIT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL PRODUCE AND FRUIT.

George Thomas and Co., fruit and produce exchange, Allen-street, report wholesale produce prices as follows : Flour, New Zpaland, 200' s, £11 5s to £11 10s; Australian, £12 to £12 10s. Whole fowl wheat, 4s 8d to 4s lOd. Pollard, £5 to £5 ss. Bran, £3 15s to £4. Prime short feed oats, 2s 4d to 2s sd ; b grade, 2i 3d, 2s 4d ; c grade, 2s 2d ; Duns and Algerians, 2s 4d to 2s 6d; seed oats, 2s 5d to 2s 7d. Feed Barley, 2s 6d. Maize, 4s to 4s 2d. ' Oatmeal, 25's, £11 to £11 10s. Pearl barley, lbs. Split peas, 17s to 17s 6d ; Prussian bluo peas, 5s to 5s 6d. Prime oaten sheaf chaff is firmer at 75s to 77s 6d for old, and. 72s 6d to 75s for new. New potatoes continue to arrive in 'increased quantities, and the values have fallen. Flukes are worth £5 10s to £6 10s, and Up-to-Dates, £5 per yon. Baled straw, 455. Separaior butter, 8d to B£d ; milled and dairy, 7£d per Ib. Hams and bacon, 7£d to 8d; sides, 7d; hams, 8d; rolls, 7^d. Hens, 3s to 3s bd ; roosters, 4s ; ducks, 5s to 5s 6d per pair. The general dulness 'following the holidays still continues in the Fruit Exchange, and several further sharp reductions in values have taken place, notably in tomatoes and plums. The supplies of apricots have been particularly short this year, and the same remark, in a modified degree, applies to peaches. Black currants, raspberries, and nectarines are still wanted, but the season is on the wane. Consignments from Sydney are now at a standstill, the Marama on Wednesday bringing only eighty instead of the usual 2000 to 3000 cases; tho only lines available being a few pines and passions. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Apency Company, Ltd., has received the following' cablegram from its London house, under date 14th inst. : — "Frozen meat : Mutton market steady ; lamb gradually improving ; beef firmer."