FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 18057, 26 August 1922, Page 12

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Messrs Bray Bros, (o! Dunedin), Ltd., report as follows for the week ended August 25:

Consignments of chaff have fallen away, but the demand is small, and best lines are selling up to £4 15s. The stores are holding fair stocks of discolored and light chaff, "which is selling from £2 10s upwards. Most of the North Island requirements are being drawn from the Blenheim district, and they are quoting about £4 10s, f.0.b., s.i. The oat market is dull. North Island merchants are confining their attention to under-grade lines, and there are good supplies of this quality offering. Prices rule about 2s 9d, f.0.b., s.i., for B’s, and A grade is offering up to 2s lid, but little business is passing. These prices are equivalent to Is 6d per bushel, sacks extra. These prices represent less to growers, and there is a heavy surplus of oats available in Dunedin, and no prospects of an outside demand. Growers are inclined to let go. Fowl wheat: The market is quiet at about 4s to 4s 6d per bushel for good whole quality. North Island merchants are securing their requirements, from Canterbury, and stocks ' held in stores in Dunedin at the present time are being used up, although there are plenty offering from the country. Milling wheat, according to Government prices for August, are: Tuscan, 5s 9d, f.0.b.; Hunters, 6s; and pearl, 6s 6d. Dunedin millers’ prices are as follow : —Flour, £lB to £2O ; bran, £5; pollard, £9; and oatmeal, £lB. Consignments o|f potatoes have been coming forward more freely, and there has been more than sufficient to meet the demand. As a result, prices have slightly, weakened. Good lines are bringing up to £6 15s. At present there is no shipping demand, as Canterbury merchants are under-quoting the local markets. Tire Auckland market is fully stocked, and they are offering £6 10s, ex wharf in Auckland. The onion market has also eased a little. The Paloona, which arrived this week, brought a shipment. ■ Screened onions arc offering to-day in Australia at £ls; other quotations are quoted as low as £l2. American onions will be due shortly, and these mil cost about 20s per crate of 1001 b. Business in the fruit marts has been fair during the week. Supplies of cooking apples and dessert are coming forward, and meet with ready sale. A few Delicious are still available, and meet with fair demand. A shipment of oranges arrived by the Paloona, and brought up to 26s a case. The duty on Australian fruits will bo removed at the end of the. month, which should make considerable difference to the business. The market has been short of bananas. Lemons aro offering freely under cost, and Aucklands are. neglected. There is a keen inquiry for cabbage* and cauliflowers. All other lines of vegetables are in fair supply, and prices reasonable. Eggs are coming forward more freely, and there is a steady demand at Is 2d to Is 3d. Butter has advanced Id alb this week. Cheese, bacon, and honey are in good supply, and prices easy. The following prices were realised during the week ; iiparrowbill oats, 2s 9d to ss. • Oats.—Cartons, 2s 3d. Chaff.—Prime oaten, £4 Tss. Fowl wheat, 4s 6d to 4s 9d, Wheaten straw, £2 10s, Oaten, £3 5s 9d. Beeswax! to Is 9d. Honey.—Sections, 10s a dozen; bulk, 7<i to 7gd. Butter.—Creamery pats Is 9d; bulk, Is B|d ; dairy and separator, le sd. Cheese.—Mild, Bj[d ; matured, 9d. Hit-chon's bacon, ll^d. Hams, Is. Apples.—Delicious, choice, 12s 6d to 15s; Oleopatras, choice, 11s to 12s; cookers, 8s to 9s 6d. Bananas, 34s a case. Pears.—Winter Coles, sjd. Adelaide oranges, 24s to 265. American oranges, 40s to 455. Tahiti oranges, repacks, 245. Adelaide lemons, 17s 6d. Pines, 25s 6d. Passions, 265. Potatoes.—Prime, £6 10s to £7. Kumaras, 18s a case. Carrots, 6s a cwt. Turnips, 2s 6d a cwt (slow of sale). Cabbage, 6« a sack (scarce). Cauliflowers. —Firsts, 4s to 8s a dozen (market fully supplied). Vegetable marrow, 18s a sack. Lettuce, 3s 6d a dozen. Walnuts.—Choice Afcaroa, Is 6d a lb. Grapes, os. Peanuts, 6^l. I Melbourne onions, 20s a cwt. bigs.—Best porkers, 7d; baconers, 7£d; over-weight, s^d. Eggs.—-Stamped, Is 3d; cased, Is 2d. Poultry.—Hens, 3s 6d to 4s a pair; cockerels, 6s 6d a pair; ducks, 7s a pair; turkeys, Is a lb live weight.