THE MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 94, 20 April 1912, Page 7

THE MARKETS.

POTATO PRICES ADVANCE. A sharp advance in the potato market is reported by the Now Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company, %jtd/, ■no doubt duo to ' the possibility of trade with Australia. Farmers are advised to realise while a fair price is offering. Practically the- same remarks apply to onions, ' excepting that onions have already been sent to the Commonwealth. Pork is in excellent demand, and larger supplies are wanted. Fresh eggs are in good enquiry, but preserved are in good supply, and inclined to be dull of sale. Chaff is coming in in largo quantities, second-rate lots being hard to cjuit. Oats are firm. Wheat is steady. Pollard and bran are unaltered. Apples, pears, and passions are lower, owing to increased supply.. Tomatoes remain about the same. Good samples of green peas are in excellent demand, but recent arrivals have been of inferior quality. There has been a general weakening in prices of all vegetables, with large supply. Prices are as follow : — Vegetables. — Potatoes, £5 to £5 10s per ton; onions, £7 10s to £9 per ton; cabbage, Is per sack; carrots, 3s to 3s 6d per sack; cauliflower, choice, 4s to 6s per sack; French beans, Id to lid per lb; green peas, prime, 9s to XOs per part) sack ; marrows, Is to Is 6d per _ case ; swedes, 2s per owt; _ turnips, whito, Is per suck; lettuce, fair, Is to Is 6d per case. Fruit.— Grapes, Hutt. 9d to lOd per lb ; .passions, local, 3s 6d to 4s per halfoase; apples, cooking, Ss to 4s per case; apples, dessert, 5s 6d to 6s per caso; pears, W.8.U., 3»; cooking, Is 6d to 2$ half-case; tomatoes, 2s to 3s half-case; peaches, cookers, 2s to 2s 6d, and dessert, 2s 6d to 3s per half-case; quinces, 2s> 6d to 3s per case. Produce. — Maize, 5s per bushel j wheat, 4s 6d per bushel ; ton sack lots, 4s 4d ; pollard, £8 por ton; ton lots, £7 15s; £6 per ton; ££j 1 0s ton lots; pig meal, £7 per ton; maize meal, £10 10s per ton ; chaff, oaten bheal", £4 ' 5s to £4 10s por ton ; hay, prime, £4 to £4 10b per ton ; sucrosino, £7 per ton ; btruw. whoaten, '£2'loh to £2 15s; oaten, £2 15s? por ton ; linseed oil cake, genuine, £13 10s per ton ; oata, feed, 2k lOd ; duns, 3s por bushel ; oa's, crushed, 3s 3d poi bushel; deed, Cape barley, Is per bushel ; 3a lOd in 5-sack loth ; heed oats, Algerians, 3s 8d per bubhol; Gartons, Excelsiors, Sparrowbills, Black Rivals, 3s 3d to 3s 6d por bushel. Provisions. — Chebs>o, best factory, 7d ; loaf, 7jU ; dressed pork, 70'n to 90's bd, 90'b to 100's 5Jd, baconerb sj.d, choppers (heavy) 4d, tsuckerb 7d por lb; eggs, fresh Is lOd por dozei>, preserved 3d to Is 3d per dozen; butter, separator Is, dairy lid por lb; bacon, factory sides 9d. rolls 9ld, hams 9d per lb; honey, 4id to 5d per lb; beeswax, Is 4d to Is 5d por lb; fungus, 4d por lb; tallow, tins, 22s cwt; poultry, cockerels 4s 6d to 5s for good birds, table roostei'B 4k, table hem; 3s to 4s 6d. ducks 4s. to 5s 6cl por pair, turkey gobblers 9d per Jb. hens 8d pei lb livo woight.

The attendance at the weekly meeting of tho Star of Wellington Lodge, 1.0.0. T., held in the Mission Hall, Ttira-naki-strect, was large on account of the occasion being &■ visit from the other city and suburban lodges. Bro. Atkinson. D.C.T., piceided. Bro. U. Price, who' had just returned from a visit to Auckland, gave an interesting account of the doings of tho order in that city. Bro. W. Johnson. D.1.C.T., was revolted ill. Tbo following contributed to an enjoyable programme: "Sisters Weaton, Peniberton. and Parkin, ami Bros. Townsend and Price. At next meeting the election uf onicer* will take place.