PRODUCE MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 12

PRODUCE MARKET

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Laery and Co. report the following wholesale prices:— .<

Australian barley, 3s 3d bushel; barleymeal, £6 5e ton; bran, £6 ton; chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 5s ton; chaff, cow, £4 s»' ton; charcoal, 12s 1001b; copra cake meal, £7 17s Gd ton; farro food, £7 ton; mixed fowl feed, 4s 6d bushel; shell lime, £2 ton; linseed meal, 14s 1001b; linseed nuts, 12s 6d 1001b; lucerne meal, 9s 1001b; lucerne chaff, £7 5s ton; crushed maize, 5s bushel; whole maize, 4s 8d bushel; meatmeal, 8s 6d 1001b; manures, blood and bone £7 ton, mixed bonedust £6 ton, superphosphates £5 10s ton; oats, Algerian 3s buehel, Dunns 3s 3d and 3s 6d bushel, Gartons 2s lid and 3s 2d bushel, ground £7 ton; Prussian blue peas, 9s 6d bushel; partridge peas, 5s 6d bushel; New Zealand wheat pollard, £6 10s ton; oat pollard, £4 ton; pipi shell grit, £3 5s ton; oyster shellgrit, £4 15s ton; chicken shell grit, £3 5s ton; agricultural salt, £4 17s Gd ton; red rock salt, £6 15s ton; wheat, 4s to 4s 9d bushel; wheatmeal, £8 5s ton; molasses, scwt drums, 47s 6d drum; eggs, first-grade, Is 3d per dozen; butter, farmers' separator, 6d per lb. Laery and Co., Ltd., Geo. Thomas and Co., Ltd., Thompson Bros., Ltd., Townsend and Paul, Ltd., D. Bowie and Co., Ltd., and W. Burbidge and Co. report present values as follows: — Apples, Gravenstein Fancy, 3s, 5s per bushel, Worcester Permain 2s Gd, 3s per bushel, cooking apples 3s 6d, 4s -6d per bushel; pears, Fancy William Bon Chretien, 3s 6d, 4s 6d; peaches, choice Paragon ss, 6s per half-case, others 3s 6d, 4s 6d per half-case; plums, Blue Diamond ss, 6s per half-case. Grand Duke 4s, 5s per halfcase; nectarines, choice, ss, 6s per halfcase; quinces, choice, ss, 6s per bushel; raspberries, choice, Greytown, 6s 6d per 101b bucket; lemons, choice, cured, 15b, 18s per bushel, others 12s, 15s per bushel; tomatoes, choice, Hutt red 2s 6d, 3s per half-case; coloured 2s, 2s 6d per halfcase; grapes, choice, hothouse, 6d, 9d per lb; cucumbers, choice, hothouse, 2s Gd, 3s 6d per dozen; potatoes, choice, 7s, 10s per cwt; onions, choice, 3s per sugarbag; cabbage, choice, Is, 2s per bananacase; lettuce, choice, 3s, 6s per bananacase; cauliflowers, choice. 7s, 9s per sack; Rreen peas, choice, 6s, 10s per half-sack; french beans, choice, 4s, 5s per half-sack; scarlet runners choice, Is, 2s per bananacase; marrows, choice, Is per banana-case; pumpkins, choice, red, 6s, 7s per sack; carrots, choice, 2d. 2%d per bunch; parsnips, choice, 4d, 5d per bunch; swedes, choice, Is, 2s per banana-case; white turnips, choice, Is 6d, 25 per dozen bunches; spring onions, choice, 6d, Is per bunch; beetroot, choice, 3d per bunch; eggs, fresh', first-gradej Is 24 per dozen.