PALMERSTON MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 14

PALMERSTON MARKETS

The Dominion Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report receiving exceptionally heavy yardings of pigs and poultry at their usual weekly fair held on Thursday, and to a full bench of buyers a total clearance was made at prices a little in excess of last week's realisations. Porkers were again keenly .sought after, realising up to £2 12s. Very large supplies of vegetables and fruit were disposed of at undermentioned rates.

We quote as follows:— Pigs.—Best weaners, 23s to 255; medium, 20s to 225; small, 16s 6d to 19s 6d; slips, prime 27s to 30s, others 235: stores, 30s to 395; 'heavy porkers. £2 10s to £2 12s; light porkers. 38s to 47s

Poultry.—Best W.L. hens, 7s 6d to 9s per pair; heavy hens, 8.0., lis 6d to 13s 6d; light hens, 6s to 6s 6d per pair; ducks, young 10s 6d to 12s per pair, old 7s to 8s per pair; cockerels, large 6s to 7s per pair, small ls to 5s per pair; duck and ducklings, 13s to 225; hens and chicks, 5s to 13s; geese. 8s per pair. Produce. —Apples, Delicious 16s to 16s 6d per case. Stunners 10s to 12s 6d, Doughertys 12s to 14s 6d,' Granny Smiths 16s to 17s 6d; pears, Winter Cole 12s to 14s 9d, Winter Nelis lis to *13s, cookers 9s 9d to 12s; cauliflowers, 14s to 23s 6d per sack: cabbages, 2s 6d to 5s per case; sacks, 5s to 9s; leeks. 3s to 4s 6d; lettuce, 2s 6d to 6s 6d; spinach, 5s to 8s; carrots, 10s to 21s per sugar bag; parsnips. 8s to 9s per dozen; rhubarb, 4s to 8s per dozen; celery, 6d to ls 6d per bunch: broad beans, 4d to s£d per lb; peas, 9d to Is Id per pound; new potatoes, Otaki, 4Jd to s|d per lb; Pukekohe, 3?d to 4d per lb; swedes. 4s to 7s per sugar bag; spring onions, 6d to 1§ 6d per bunch,