PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 9

PRODUCE PRICES

The Now Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company reports market prices for. produce to-day as follow :—

Vegetables.—Potatoes, .£6 10s to £7 10s per ton. Cabbage, choice, l'Os to 12s; medium, 5s 6d to 7s 6d sack. Cauliflower, choice, 14s to 15s ; medium, 8s to 10s sack. Carrots, best, 6s to 7s; others, 4-s to 5s sack. Onions, £5 per , ton. Turnips, white, 4s to 6s per sack. Leeks, 3d to 4d per bundle.. Lettuce, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per case. Spinach, 6s 6d to 7s 6d per case. Beetroot, 4s to 5s per sack. Spring onion, 3d to 6d bunch. French beans, 4d to 5d per lb. Marrows, 2s to 3s per ca6e. Swedes, 4s to 5s per cwt. Pumpkins, 4s to 5s per sack.

Fruit.—Apples, dessert, choice, 7s to Bs'.per case. Apples, cooking, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per case. Pears, choice^ dessert, 8s 6d to 9s 6d per case. Tomatoes, Hutt, 8s to 10s half-case. Lemons, £2 2s 6d per case. Passions, 6s to 8s per halfcase.

General.—Dressed pork, 70V to 90's, 6,}d to 6Jds 90's to 100's, 6d to 6£d; baconers, 6d ; choppers' (heavy), 4d per lb. Honey,"in 60's, s£d -per lb. j Honey sections, 8s per dozen. ,Eggs, I fresh, 2s 6d per dozen. Eggs, preserved, Is 7d to Is 8d per dozen. Beeswax, Is 6d per lb. Fungus, 6Jd to 7d per lb. vWalnuts, 6d per lb.

Poultry.--Light • table hens, 3s to 3s 6d ; heavy hens, 4s to ss; cockerels, 3s to 4s; heavy cockerels, 5s to 6s. Good heavy ducks, 6s fid to 7s 6d; Indian Runners, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per pair. Turkey gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; hens, lid to 1« per lb live weight. Wheat, good whole fowl, 5s 6d bushel; 10-snck lots 5s 4d. Maize, 5s 6d per bushel; best imported, 5s 9d bushel. Oats, feed, 3s 6d per bushel; crushed, 3s lOd per bushel. Seed oats, Australian, Algerians, dressed and clipped, ss; Cartons and Sparrowbills, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Russian barley Cape seed 4s 6d per bushel. Barley feed, 4s 3d'per bushel. Barley meal, £8 per ton. Pollard, £8 5s per ton. Rice pollard, £7 10s per ton. Bran, £5. Linseed oil cake, meal and nuts, genuine, 14s cwt; ton lots, £13 I,os. Chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 10s to £6 per ton. Molasses, in casks, 28s per 5-cwt, casks extra. Sucrosine, .£§ lQe per ton.. §traw, £3 10s per ton.