FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 17034, 3 May 1919, Page 3

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Messrs Bray Bros, (of Dunedin), Ltd., report as follows for the week ended today : Business has been quiet in the fruit line since the holidays. The great proportion coming forward lias not been first-class, but anything choice has realised satisfactory prices. Nelson growers have had fair quantities of apples condemned through black spot. A shipment of Fiji bananas arrived, soma of them in a very bad state, but any good lines realised high prices. A few lines of tomatoes have come forward., but they are on the green side; good colored ones have readily been picked up. Australian fruits are ail short of supply. The potato maricet has eased a little, but good lines are readily picked up at the ruling prices. Fowl wheat: The market is well supplied. Dairy butter is short of supply. Honey is finding a better sale, and some firstclass samples have reached the market. All lines of vegetables are short of supply and high in price. The following prices were realised during the week: Wheat, 6s 9d per bushel. Oats.—Feed Gartons, 4s per bushel. Chaff.—Prime oaten, £7 per ton. Hitchon’s bacon (scarce), Is per lb. Beeswax, 2s per lb. Honey.—Sections, 9s dozen; bulk, white clover, 6d to 7d. Oheese, mild and matured, Hid. Butter.—Creamery pats. Is 6d; creamery bulk, Is 5Jd; dairy and separator, Is 3d ; milled bulk, Is 4J,d. Apples.—Cookers, 2d to 2jpl per ll>; Scarlets, 15s to 15s per case; Jonathans, 11s per case ; Delicious, 12s 6d per case. Lemons. —Americans, £2 per case ; Adelaides, 16s per case. Walnuts, Is 3d per lb. Potatoes. —Local (prime), £9; Canterburys, £B. Cauliflowers, 15s dozen. Cabbages, 5s to 8s 6d dozen. Lettuce, Is 6d dozen. Onions.—Canterburys, £9 to £9 10s per ton. Tomatoes. —Otago Central, 9^d; local hothouse, Is 4d; Christchurch dessert, lid. Grapes, is 4d per lb. Fiji bananas, up to 38s. Peaches.—Crates, 8d ; cases, 6d. Pigs.—'Best baconcrs, lid; porkers, lOjd; overweights, 7d. Cali Meal. —1001b sacks, 265; 501b sacks, 13s 6d. Pig meal, 13s 6d. Meat meal, 17s 6d. Oyster grit, 7s 6d. Molasses, 14s case. Crushed linseed, 22s 6d owt. Poultry.—Hens, 4s to 4s 6d pair; cockerels, 6s 6d to 8s 6d pair; turkey hens, I Ovid per lb, live weight; gobblers, 11-Ad per lb, live weight. Swede turnips, 5s sack. Rarotonga oranges, 245.