FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 16398, 14 April 1917, Page 12

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd., report as follows for the week : Oats.—The market is very unsettled, and there is a difference of 6d per bushel between buyers and sellers’ ideas of values. The result is that, though good quantities are offering, practically no business is being done. Potatoes.—Supplies are plentiful, and prices have a downward tendency. Eggs.—The market is barely supplied, and prices have firmed considerably during the week. Preserved are now in demand. Bacon.—Supplies are scarce, and the market has advanced Id; whilst hams, on the other hand, are 2d per lb under bacon prices. The following prices were realised during the week : Wheat.—Best fowl, 5s lOd per bushel. Oats. —A Gartons, nominally, 3s 6d per bushel; A Sparrows, 3s 7d per bushel. Chaff.—Prime oaten sheaf, £5 10s per ton. Potatoes, £6 per ton. Canterbury onions, £9 per ton. Bran, £4 per ton. Pollard, £6 10s per ton. Maize, 6s per bushel. Bacon, Is 2d per lb. Hams, Is per lb. Cheese.—Matured mediums, 10jd per lb: new season’s mild mediums, lOd per lb. Eggs.—Stamped, 2s 2d per dozen; cased, 2s Id per dozen; preserved, Is lid per dozen. Butter.—Creamery' bulk, Is 5d per lb; creamery pats, Is sjd per lb; dairy and separator pats, Is 3d per lb. Apples.—Dessert Cox’s Orange, 10s per case; cooking, l£d per lb. Plums.—Dessert, per lb. Peaches. —Choice dessert crates, 6d per lb; cases, firsts, 2d per lb. Grapes.—Local, up to QJrd per lb. Rarotonga bananas, up to 14s 3d per case. Island oranges, 15s per case. Lemons.—American, 32s 6d per case. Tomatoes. —Christchurch, 3d per lb; local, 5d per lb; Otago Central, 4d per lb. Cucumbers, 6s per dozen. Marrows, 6s 6d per sack. 4d per lb. xSjWalnuta, lid per lb. Cabbages.—Drumheads, 3s per dozen. Peas, 3d per lb. Poultry.—Hens, 4s per pair; cockerels, 6s per pair; turkey gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; ducks, 6s per pair; geese, 7s per pair.