FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 14554, 1 May 1911, Page 7

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Messrs T. E. Shiel and Co. report for the week ended Saturday: Produce.—Market is rather quiet, which i is doubtless owing to the holidays having ■' interfered considerably with the business. ! The inquiry for oats is none too strong, ! but fowl wheat has somewhat improved. 1 Chaff is in over-supply. The same may be i suid of potatoes, which are not realising I too well. Eggs are very short of requirements ; sam« may be said of butter. [ Slight inquiry now for good swedo turj n ip S —not too large; also carrots. ' Potatoes.—Prime quality Southern Up-to-Dates, guaranteed absolutely free of disease, 82s 6d to 87s 6d ; Oamaru potatoes, prime quality, 70s; infected, up to £2 15s ton. Poultry.---Well-conditioned lines meeting with" ready sales. Hens, 2s 9d to 3s 6d per pair; ducks. 4s to ss; cockerels, 3s 6d to 4>; geese, 5s 6d pair; turkeys—cocks 7id lb, hens 6kl lb. Hacon.—Smoked rolls, 7£d lb; hams, to Bd, guaranteed quality; sides, 6?d to 7d lb. | Butter.—North Island factory pats, ! lb; first grade iactory bulk, lljd; farmers' pats and busk butter, anything like good I quality coming forward moots with exceli lent demand, pat<> 9Jd to IOJd, bulk separator lOd to IOJd : milled butter, 9Jd to lOd lb. Eggs.—Guaranteed stamped, very scarce, Is lOd to 2s; ordinary cased, Is 6d to k 9d, according to quality. Preserved eegs are now being inquired for, and are readily saleable from Is 3d to Is 5d per dozen, according to quality. Onions.—Canterbury3 are not so plentiful, £4 to £4 5s per ton. Bran, £4 ton. Pollard, £6 per ton. Straw.—Oaten, 40s to 42s 6d; wheaten, 306 to 355. Clover Hav —Last season's clover hay, £3 10s ton. " Chaff.—The market is over supplied at present, everyone having been cutting, and more than requirements have been coining forward; prime bright heavy black oat chaff, £4 5s to £4 10s; white oat, £4 ss. Fowl Wheat—Good whole fowl wheat, 3d to 5s 2d ; slightly smutted, 2s lOd to 2s lid; shrivelled, 2s 4d to 2s Bd, according to quality. Cheese.—Scarce. Factory mediums, 5Jd to 6d lb. Swede Turnips.—Not too large, 30s ton (sacks in); loose, 22s to 235. Pears.—We quote: Marie Louise, Winter Nelis, Winter Cole, 10s to lis per caso; Napoleons, Vicars, Bcurre de Capiamonte, Beurre Boss, 7s 6d to 8s 9d per case. Apples. —Choice showy dessert, 8s 6d to 9s 9d per case; Cox's Orange, up to 10s; Ripstones and Jonathans, 7s 6d to 8s 9d; London Pippins, Spitzenbergs, 6s to 7s; Cookers, large green, 6s to 7s 6d. Quinces. —Good demand; to 2d per lb. Grapes.—Adelaide, 5d to 6d lb. Citron Melons for jam, £5 per ton. Vegetable Marrows, 6s to 6s 6d per sack. Cabbages. —Scarce; 3s 6d to 4s per sack. Lemon 6 13s to 14s.

Bananas.—Monthly shipment due to arrive Monday; ripe fruit, 12s per case; green, 8s 6d to 9s 6d. Island Oranges.—None for a fortnight; prime repacks to come in, 9s case.