PALMERSTON PRODUCE MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 73, 23 September 1939, Page 16

PALMERSTON PRODUCE MARKET.

The Dominion Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report receiving particularly large entries of pigs and poultry at their usual weekly saie held on Thursday. All classes of pigs were somewhat easier in price due, no doubt, to the present unsettled conditions. Poultry remained firm at last week's rates, a larger entry being cleared. Pigs: Best weaners, 20s to 21s each; medium weaners, 15s to 18s; small to backward weaners, 10s to 13s; slips, 18s to 245; heavy stores, 25s to 325; light stores, from 17s to 275; porkers, 38s to 495. Poultry: Best White Leghorn hens, 9s to 11s per pair; heavy stores, hens. 10s to 11s; light to medium hens. 6s to 8s; heavy cockerels, 8s to -9s; light cockerels, 6s tc 7s per pair; roosters, 5s to 7s per" pair; ducks, 6s to 8s; nullets -4s to 6s 6d each. Produce: Apples—Delicious 14s to 16s, Stunners 10s to 11s 6d, Dochertys lls to 13s, Rome Beauties 11s 6d to 13s 6d; pears, Winter Cole 10^ 6d to 12s, cooking pears 9s to,- 10s 6d; cabbages, spring cabbage 4s to 7s 3d per case, Drumhead 8s to 9s; cauliflower, 10s to 14s per bag; carrots, 6s to 10s per sugar bag; parsnips, 4s to 5s per sugar bag; lettuce. 3s to 7s 6d per case; leeks. 4s to ss; celery, 6s to 9s; spinach, 5s to 8s 6d; swedes, 2s to 3s; beetroot, 6e to 6s 6d per case; turnips, 6d to Is 6d; radishes, Is to Is 6d! rhubarb, 8s to 9s per dozen; potatoes, 18s to 21s per cwt; onions. 22s to 25s per bag.