PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 106, 4 May 1917, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company report produce prices to-day as follow: —

Vegetables.—Potatoes/ prime Hutt, 7s 6d to 8s per cwt; others, Canterbury, £7.10s per ton; cabbage, choice, 7s 6d to 10s per sack; cauliflower, choice, 7s 6d to 16s 6d per sacK; carrots, best, 5s per sack; onions, local, £9 per ton; turnips, * white, 8s per sack'; lettuce, choice, 2s 6d, .5s 6d per case; French beans, 4d per lb ; beetroot, 6d per bunch ; spring onions, 8d per bundle ; green peas, 2s per peck; parsnips, 5s to 7s per eack; marrows, 4s to 6s per sack; swedes," 4s per cwt; Hutt tomatoes, 6s to 8s per half-case.

Fruit.—Apples, choice, 4s 6d to 7s 6d per full case; quinces, 4s per bushel cases; grapes, Is 2d per. lb ;, pears, local; w.b.c, choice dessert, 6s 3d per halfcase; medium, 4s per half-case. Produce.—Onions, £8 to £8 10s ton; wheat, good whole fowl 6e 9d to 6s 10d bushel; maize, 5s 6d per bushel; oats, feed 4s 6d per bushel, crushed 4s'9d per bushel ; seed oats (Australian), Algerians, dressed and clipped to arrive Ss, others 4s, 7d, Gartone and Sparrowbills 4s Bd, Duns 4s 9d per bushel; Russian barley Cape seed, 6s per bushel; barley feed, 5s per bushel; barley meal, £7 15s per ton, fine pig feed; pollard, £8 to £8 10s ; bran, £5 10s per ton; linseed oil cake, slabs, meal, and nuts £13 per ton of 20001b, • 100's 13s, '50's 6s 9d; chaff, oaten sheaf £6 to £6 10s per- ton; molasses, in casks, 28s per cask; straw, £3 10s per ton ex store; dressed pork, tO'.s to 90's 6id ; 90's to 100's 6d ; baconers sd, choppers (heavy) 3d to 4d per lb ; honey, 5d to 6d perlb; eggs, fresh 2s 9d per dozen. , .