FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 16779, 6 July 1918, Page 12

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

.Messrs Bray Bros, (of Dunodin), Ltd., report as follows for the week ended today ; Fruit. —Largo consignments of dessert and cooking apples have arrived during tlio past week, and values are easier coinpared with those ruling last week. We expect consignments of Adelaide and Sydney fruit at an early date. Onions : The onion market has firmed, and has advanced about £2 per ton during the past few days. Values in Canterbury are very high, and with Melbourne onions quoted at £ls per ton (which means they would cost in the vicinity of £l9 10s landed at Uunedin), there must be a further rise in value. Potatoes : The, market shows an upward tendency, and good prime lines are readily placed at quotations. Medium and inferior lines are not meeting with a ready sale. Chaff: Very firm. The hulk of the lines coming forward are light or discolored, and primo lines are readily picked up. Oats: All lines are in short supply. Poultry is in short supply, and good 'table birds are demanding excellent prices. Fggs: Stamped and guaranteed eggs are firm at quotations. The following prices were realised during the week: Wheat, fowl, 6s 6d per bushel. Oats, feed Gartons, 4s 7d per bushel. Chaff.—Prime oaten sheaf, £7 to £7 10s; medium, £6 5s per ton. Fat, 23s per cwt. Beeswax, 2s per lb. Maize. 7s 3d per bushel. Clover hay, £o 15s per ton. Hitchon's'bacon. Is 3d per lb. Choeso, mild and matured, per lb. Eggs.—'Stamped, Is lOd per dozen; preserved, Is 6kd per dozen. Butter. —Creamery bulk. Is 5Jd; creamery pats, Is 6d : dairy and separator, Is 3d : milled, Is 2d to Is 4d per lb. Honey.—Sections, 10s per dozen; bulk white clover, 9Jd per lb. Apples. —Jonathans, 6s to 8s 6d : cookers, 8s; Delicious, 10s to 13s; Lord Wolslevs, 8s 6d per case. Pear's, dessert Cloes, 4£d per lb. Lemons. —Adelaide, 17s 6d ; American, £2 5s to £2 10s per case. Oranges. —Poorman, 16s ; Rarotonga, 15s per case. Bananas. —Ripe, 22s 6d; Rarotonga, to 15s per case. Pines, 17s 6d per case. Passions, 18s per case. Tomatoes, local, Is 4d per lb. Walnuts, lOd to Is per lb. Crapes. 2s 9d per lb. Melons, 20s per cwt. Pumpkins, 6s to 8s per cwt. Onions, good dry Cante-rburys, £ll to £l2 per ion. Pickling onions, 2d per lb. Potatoes, prime local. £9 10s per ton. Cauliflowers, firsts. 8s 6d per dozen. Cabbages. 3s 6d per dozen. Marrows, 6s to 7s ; market firmer. Poultry.—'Hens, 4s per pair : cockerels, 6s 6d to. 7s per pair; ducks. 7s 6d per pair: turkey gobblers, lid per lb live weight : turkey lions, BJd per lb live weight. Pig*.—Rest bacone-rs. 6rl ; porkers, S|d per lb.