PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 11

PRODUCE PRICES

In the weekly market report of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-op. Distributing Co., Ltd., the following quotations are given :— ':

' Produce.—Wheat, good whole fowl, 6s 8d bushel; maize, 5s 9d per bushel; oats, prime A'Gartons 4s 6d, B Gartens 4s sd, Sparrowbills 4s' 4d per .' bushel. Seed oats, Algerians 6s 6d, Gartons 4s 8d per bushel; barley meal, £9 10s per ton; pure pea meal, £10 10s per ton; pollard, £10 5s per ton; rice pollard, £7 10s per ton; bran, £6 5s per ton; chaff, oaten sheaf, £6 5s per ton; flour, 100's, 14s 9d, 200's 28s 9d, oatmeal, '25's, ss; straw, £3 2s 6d person. Vegetables.—Potatoes, choice Hiitt 9s 6d to 10s 6d per cwt., others 7s to 8s per cwt; cabbage, choice spring Bs.to 10s, others 5s to 6s per sack; cauliflower, choice 6s to Bs, medium 4s to 6s sack; carrots, best 5s to 6s, others 3s to 3s 6d sack; peas, choice, Is to Is 6d per peck; onions, £8 per ton; turnips, white, 8s to 10s per sack; leeks, 6d toßd per bundle; lettuce, 4s to 6s per case; spinach, 4s to 5s per case; beetroot, 6s to 7s per sack; broad beans, 5s to 6s per half-sack; spring onions, 6d to 9d per bunch; Frendh beans, 3d to 4d per lb; marrows,* 4s 6d to 5s 6d per case; swedes, 5s to 6s 6d per £ack. Fruit.—Apples, choice (local) 10s per case, cooking (local) 6s'per case; nee- : tarines, choice, 5s to 6s per half-case; plums, Burbanks, 6s to 7s per halfcase; plums, cooking, 3s 6d to .44 6d half-case; peaches, choice 7s 6d, others 5s half-case; apricots, choice 7s. 6d, others 4s 6d half-case; black currants, 7s 6d to 8s 6d per half-case; raspberries, 83 to 9s bucket; pears, local W.8.C., 6s to 8s per half-case; tomatoes; Hutt 7d to 8d per lb'; Nelsons,. 8s to 10s per half-case. '.''.■

General.—Dressed pork, 70's to 90's 6id, 90's to 100's 6d; baconers s£d, choppers (heavy) 33d to 4d per lb; honey, in 60's 5d pel' 1b"; honey sections, 6s 6d per dozen; eggs, fresh, Is 3d to Is 4d per dozen;. beeswax, is 6d per lb; fungus, 6^l to 7d per lb; walnuts. 6d to 7d per lb. Poultry.—Light table pens, 4s; heavy hens, 5s 6d to 6s; cockerels, 4s to ss; heavy cockerels,* 6s to 7s. Good, heavy ducki, 7s 6d to 8s; Indian Ruiiners, 5s 6d to 6s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; hens, lid to Is por lb live weight. ,