FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 16197, 19 August 1916, Page 5

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

■ Messrs Bray Bros;, (cf Dunedin), Limited, report as 1 follows for the week' ended today ::

Wheat: Tho market fe quiet. 'Prime milling' lines are receiving most attention, and prices are normal. Fowl wheat is in fair supply, and meets with a ready sale at quotations. Oats: There is little change from our last report. Offerings are'light, and prime lines are demanding- attention; also good inquiry for seed. Chaff: Values are about the saiua ae last week. Good bright lines are in good demand, and prices are normal, light and discolored lines being hard to quit. Potatoes: Light supplies are owning forward. Values are firm. Eggs: Market easier. Cheese: Home buying is now practically finished, and 'the dairy farmers may 'look forward to an extremely prosperous year. The.phenomenal prices of from 8d to as high as 9d were paid for factories' outputs, or an increase of 50 per cent, on normal pre-war prices. Fruit: Dessert apples airo in. excellent demand, supplies being below the requirements. A flhipnient of Sydney fruit and Island oranges arriving yesterdny «x Monowai, and arrived on a bare market, with tlte result that prices were high. A direct shipment of 1,600 oases of bananas from Fiji ie txpected here on Monday, and should realise good prices. Wheat.—Velvet, 5s Id to 5s 4'd: Tuscan, 4s 5d to 4s 9d; best fowl, 4s 3d per bushel.

Oats.—A Gartens, 2s 9£d; B Gartons, 2s Bd'; A sparrows, 2s 9|d per bushel. Chaff.—Heavy, £4 5s to £4 10b ton. Hay.—Clover, £6 per ton. Straw.—Wheateh, £2 5j per ion. Potatoes.—Prime table, £8 15s; mediums, £7 per tou. , Onions.—Melbourne, £7 10s per ton. Bran, £4 per ton, Pollard, £6 10s per ton. Turnips, £2 per ton. Maize, 6s per bushel. Bacon.—Rolls, Is per lb. Cheese.—Mediums, colored, 9id orate lots; single, 9Jd; loaf, 10£<1 per lb." ' Eg:gG.—Stamped,. Is 7d; ;4orepecpnr6', Is 6d per ( dozcn. . Butter.—dreamery bulk, Is creamery pats. Is 6d per lb; dairy and separator pats, Is 2d to Is 3d per ib.. Beeswax, Is 4d per lb. Honey.—Bulk, sid per lb; 101b tins, 5s 3d per tin. Pumpkins, £4 10s to £5 per ton. Marrows, 10s per sack. Melons, fcs 6d per cwt. Apples.—Scarlets. 4d; Cleopa-tras, 3kl; Slurmers, per lb. Oranges.—Adelaide, 18a; Sydney, 14s to 15s; Island, 16s 6d per case. I/emous.—Adelaide, 17s 6d per case. Pines.—Queensland, 17g to 19s per case. Passions, 8a 6d per case. Peanuts, 2Jd per lb. Walnuts, B|d per lb. Cabbages (scarce), 10s per sack. Cauliflowers, 5s to 6s 6d per sack. Sprouts,- 4s 201b.oase. Carrots, 4s per cental. Parsnips, 7s per sack. , Turnips.—Table, 3s per sack. Poultry.—Hens, 3s 9d to 4s 6d per pair; cockerels, 5s per pair; turkey liens, per Ib.livo weight; gobblers, lOjd per lb. Bacon.—Pigs, 120's to 180's, 8d lb; porkers, 6|d lb.