THE MARKETS.'

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 70, 22 March 1912, Page 8

THE MARKETS.'

, PROSPECTS OF DEARER ONIONS. The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company, Ltd., report that potatoes have been somewhat easier in value the last fetf days, but there is little prospect of any great drop immediately. The prospects for onions is that the market will rule very high throughout the season, and already there is a hardening tendency, and small offerings from South, while the Northern crop is about exhausted. Fresh eggs are firm, and are likely to rise at the approach of Easter, 'Preserved lines are also in-strong demand. Butter is higher. Pork is in greater demand, and an advance is very probable. Poultry is still low. Honey is now selling freely, and as the crop is light this year, better values are obtainable than for several years past. Pollard and pig meals are still scarce. Oats are dull. Wheat has weakened, while chaff is unchanged. Apples % and peaches are the chief lines coming in, and. there is little change from last week in values. Tomatoes are weaker, and a further fall -is expected if warmer weather prevails, but failing this there is certain to be a large quantity that will not ripen. Cabbage is still a glut in the market, but cauliflowers continue to maintain good values. Marrows are in good demand, and swede 6 are plentiful. Green peas are specially sought after. Prices given below are as accurate as it is possible to give considering the wide variance in qualities. Vegetables.— Potatoes, Hutt £4 10s to £5, others £4 ton; "onions, globes, £8 per ton ; cabbage, Is per .sack ; ' carrots, 3e to 3s 6d per sack ; cauliflower, choice, 6s to 8s 6d per sack ; broad beans, Id per lb ; French beans, Id per lb ; green peaß, Hutt, 4& per cental bag ; marrows, ls.9d to 2» 3d per- case; swedes, 2s per cwt; turnipfc, white, lfi to lfi 6d per sack ;' lettuce, fair Is to Is 6d, choice 2s to 2s 6d per case. Fruit.— Grapes, Hutt, 7^d to 8d per lb ; passions, local, 6s per half-case ; apples,- cooking 4s to 4s 6d per caee, deesert 5s to 6s per case; pears, W.B.C. 4s, cooking 2e od per half-caee ; tomatoes, 3s 6d to '4s per half -case; peachee, cookers Is 9d, dessert 2s 6d to 4s per half-case. provisions. — Cheese, beet factory mediums 7d, loaf 7^d per lb ; dressed pork, 70> to 90's sid, 90's to 100'b 5-id. baconers 5d to sid; choppers (heavy) 3£d to 4d, suckere 7d per lb ; eggs, fresh, 1« 6d per dozen ; butter, separator lid to Is, dairy lOd per lb ; bacon, factory sides 9d, rolls 9|d, hams 9d per lb ; honey, 4jd to od per lb ; beeswax, Is, 4d per lb ; fungus, 4d per lb , tallow, tins, 22s- cwt ; poultry, cockerels 3e 6d to 4s 6d for good birds, table roosters 36 6d, table hens 2e 6d to 4s, ducks 3s 6d, to 5& 6d per pair, turkey gobblers 9d per lb, hens 8d per lb live weight. ( Produce. — Maize, 4s 8d per bushel, ten-sack lots 4a 7d ; wheat, 4s 6d per' bushel, ttm-iiaik lota 4s 3d ; pollard, £8 per ton, ton lots £7 15s ; bran, £6 per ton, £5 10s ton lots ; pig meal, £7 per ton ; maize meal, £10 10s per ton ; j chaff, oaten sheaf £4 5s to £4 10s per ton; hay, prime £4 to £4 10s per ton; sucrosine, £7 per ton ; straw, wheaten £2 10a to £2 15a, oaten £2 15s per ton; linseed oil cake, genuine £13 per ton; oats, feed 2s lOd, duns 2s 10dto3sper bushel ; oats, crushed 3s 3d per bushel ; seed, Cape barley 4e per bushel; seed oats, » Storm 'Kings (arrive about 10 daye), Algerians, Gartons, Excelsiors, Spartowbillfi, Black Rivals, 3e 3d to Ze 6d per bushel.