PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 52, 1 March 1918, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The New Zealand Fanners' Co-opera-tive Distributing Co. reports produce prices to-day as follows :— , Vegetables.—Potatoes, prime white, £6 to £8. per ion; cabbage, choice, 3s to 6s sack ; cauliflower, 10s sack ; carrots, best, 4s to 6s sack; onions, £8 ton; turnips, white, 4£d bunch : lettuce, choice, 2s 6d. to 4s case; French beans, Id lb; beetroot, 6s sack; spring onions, 6d to Sd bundle; parsnips, Ss sack; marrows, 2s 6d to 4s sack; swedes, 2s 6d cwt; tomatoes, is to. 7s Gd half-case;' pumpkins, 10s sack; celery, 3s to 5s doz; leeks, Sd bundle; green peas, 10s full sack; rimbarb.. 5s to 6s dozen bunches.

Fruit.—Apples, dessert, 5s to 7s 6d per full case; cooking, 3s to" is 6d full case; pears, cooking, 3s to is full case; peaches, 4s 6d half-case. Produce.—Wheat, good whole fowl, 7s 6d to 7s 9d bushel; maize, 7s 3d per bushel; oats, feed, 4s 6d to 4s 8d per bushel; oats, crushed, 5s 2d per bushel; seed oats (Australian), Algerians (dressed an 3 clipped) 5s 9d, Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 9d bushel/Russian Barley Cape seed, 6s 6d per bushel; barley feed, 5s 9d per bushel; rice meal, £8 10s; pig meal, £8; pollard, supplies very short'; bran, supplies very short; linseed oil cake, slabs, meal, and nuts £13 10s per ton of 20001b, 100's 13s 6d, 50's 6s 9d ; molasses, in casks, 35s per scwt; chaff, oaten sheaf, £8 to £9 per ton; straw, £4 10s per ton, ex store; dressed pork, 60's to 90's 8d to B£d, 90's to 140's 7^d to Bd, baconers 7d, choppers 3d to 5d per lb; honey, 7d per lb; eggs, fresh, 2s 3d per dozen.