FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 16845, 21 September 1918, Page 12

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Messrs Bray Bros, (of Dunedin), Ltd., report as follows for the week ended today ; Tho following prices were realised during tbd week: Wheat.—Fowl, 6s 9d per bushel. Oats.—Feed Gartens, os per bushel. Chaff.—Prime oaten sheaf, £8 to £8 10s; medium, £7 per ton. Fat, 27s per cwt. Beeswax, 2s per lb. Clover hay, £7 per ton. Hitchon’s baxm, Is 3d per lb. Cheese.—Mild, matured, 10|d per lb. Eggs.—Stamped, Is 4d per dozen. Butter.—Creamery bulk, Is 5Jd per lb ; creamery pate, la 6d per lb; dairy and separator, Is 3d per lb : milled, Is 2d per lb. Honey.—Sections, 11s per dozen; bulk white cloved, BAd per lb. Apples.—Cookers, 10s per case; Scarlets, 14s per case ; Delicious, 14s per case j Lord Wofseleys, 10s 6d per case. Mandarins, 25s per case. Oranges.—Sydney, 18s to 20s per case. Lemons.—Adelaide, 20s per case ; American, £2 5s per case. Bananas.—Ripe, 25s per case; green, 17s 6d per case. Pinos, 20s to 25s per case. Passions, 18s 6d per case. Walnuts, Is l|d to Is 3d lb. Onions.—Good dry Canterbury*:, 20s per cwt. Onions.—Melbournes, £24 per ton. Potatoes.—Prime local, £l2 to £l3 per ton. Cauliflowers.—Firsts, 3s 3d to 4s 5d per sack. Cabbages, 6s to 8s per sack. Marrows, 7s per sack. Poultry.—Hens, 5s to 6a per pair; cockerels, 7s to 8s per pair; turkey gobblers, 10s per lb live weight; turkey hens, Sj-d per lb live weight. Pigs.—Best baoonera, 9d per lb; overweights, 6d per lb ; porkers, 10d per lb.