THE MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 13 April 1912, Page 3

THE MARKETS.

PORK 'AND EGGS IN DEMAND. Prices in Allen-street; as reported yesterday by the Now Zealand Farmers' Co* operative Distributing Co., Ltd., show that the potato market is unchanged. Onions are also about the Rame as last week. Fresh eggs aro higher, and in "' excellent demand. Pork continues to meet eager demand, with insufficient supply to satisfy enquiries. Poultry is slightly 'firm or. Chaff is in good supply t> and value steady. Oats are somewhat firmer, with indications of further advance. Wheat is also firmer, and pollard still scarce. Farmers' lots of tallow aro in ready sale. The season's trade in grass seed has been seriously interfered with owing to tho wet and uusettled" weather this autumn preventing . the burning of bush to any extent. Apples and pears are selling well, and god values obtain. Tomatoes _ are somewhat firmer. Quinces aro plentiful, with lower prices obtainable. Grapes in excellent demand, and passion . fruit is lower, with fair supply. Cauliflowers have como back in price, and cabbage- is at bedrock rates. Carrots and turnips sell well. Marrows are lower. Pumpkins in good enquiry. Vegetables.— Potatoes, £4 to £5 per ton; onions, £7 10s to £9 per ton; cabbago, Is per carrots, 3s to 3s 6d per sack; cauliflower, choico, 5s to 6s per sack; French beans, l£d to 2d per ib;~green peas, 9s to 103 per part sack; marrows, la 6d to Is 9d per case; swedes, 2s per cwt; turnips, white, Is od to 2s per sack; lettuco, fair, Is to Is 6d per case. > Fruit.— Crapes.— Hutt, 9d to lOd per lb; passions, local, 3s 6d to 4s per halfcase; apples, cooking, 4s to 5h per case; apples, dessert, 5s 6d to 7s 6d per case; pears, W.8.C., 4s; cooking, 2s 6d halfcaso; tomatoes, 2s to 3s 6d half -case; peaohes, cookers, 2s 6d to 3s; dees-crt, 3s to 4s half-ca&e; quinces, 2s 6d to 3s per ease. Provisions.— Cheese, best factory modiums, 7d; loaf, 7£d per lb; dressed pork, 70's to 90's 6d, 90's to 100's 5Jd, baconors sid, choppers (heavy) 4d, suckers 7d par lb; egga, fresh, Is 9d to Is lOd per doz; preserved eggs, Is 2d to Is 3d per doz; butter, separator Is, dairy lid por lb; bacon, factory sides 9d, rolls 93d. hams 9d - per lb, m c/s lots; honey, 4^d to 5d per lb; beeswax, la 4d to' ls 5d per lb; fungus, 4d per lb; tallow, tins, 22s owt. Poultry, cockerels 4s 6d lo 5s for good birds; fable i - oosters, 4s; table hens, 3s to 4s 6d; ducks, 4s to 5s 6d per pair; turkey gobblers, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Produce.— Maize, 5S per bushel; wheat, 4& 6d per bushel; ten-sack lots, 4s 4d; pollard, £8 per ton; ton lots, £7 15s; bran, £6 per ton, £5 10s ton lots; pig meal, £7 por ton; maize meal, £10 10» per ton; chaff, oaten sheaf, £4 5s to £4 10s per ton,; hay, prime, £4 to £4 lOsper ton; sucrosine, £7 per ton; straw, wheaten, £2 10s to £2 15s j oaten £2 15s per ton; linseed oil cake, geninue, £13 10s per ton; oats; feed 2s lOd, duns 2s lOd to 3s per bushel; oats, crushed, 3s 3d per bushel; seed., Capo barley, 4s per bushel, 3s lOd in 5-sk. lots; seed oats, Algerians 3s Sd per bushel, ,Gartons, Excelsiors, Sparrowbille, Black Rivals 3s 3d to 3s 6d per bushel.