GROCERY LINES.
Private cable advices from Singapore indicate slight advances this week in prices for all packs of canned pineapples. Tapioca and sago, prices are practically unchanged. Pepper, nutmegs, and mace a.re quoted at firm prices and are inclined to be dearer. Colombo cablegrams • indicate that desiccated coconut prices are low but the market is steady. Turkey figs are quoted for indent at 2s to 3s per cwt lower than at, this time last season. Argentine canary seed is reported as on a firm market. Australian prune prices show no change, but Californian are rising, and all shippers of prunes from California are quoting uniform rates. Shipments of new season's Canadian pilchards will be ■ made next month. Salmon prices for the new season are not yet named.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 12
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