FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 18173, 13 January 1923, Page 2

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Messrs Bray Bros, (of .Dunedin), Ltd., report as follows for the week:—Very JiUlc business is being tran.sacte.il in Hie grain market. There is a fair inquiry for prime, oaten chaff, but medium quality is slow of sale. The oat market is stagnant at present. There has hern practically no business since the holidays. The , wheat market is steady. Considerable l stocks aro held by farmers, but mostly inferior quality, and they are not anxious to quit at present prices. Dunedin millers’ prices aro as follows: —Flour, £ls to £l7 10s; bran, £5 10s; pollard, £8; oatmeal, £lB. The potato market lias eased. Largo consignments have come forward from the North Island, and these aro offering as low as 4s a cwt. The quality of Northern potatoes this year lias not been up to the standard. Peninsula grown are offering at L,d a.' lb, and Oamaru and Taieri at The onion market is now well supplied, Auckland grown offering freely at about 18a per cwt, Mel bournes up io 20s, Eggs are also coming in freely, and prices remain steady. Cheese has firmed in sympathy with, butter, and everything points to the market still advancing. Dairy pat butter is conung in more freely, and is selling up to Is 2d a lb. Business in the fruit mart has been brisk during the past week. Large consignments of peaches and apricots have come forward, and prices have been low. Some splendid samples of Otago Central grown peaches have sold as low as 21 d per lb. Plums and goose-) berries aro also in good supply, and prices moderate. The growers report very good crops of all stone fruit. Most of it is coming in quickly, and prices may advance once the Hulk is quitted. Ilaspborries are short of supply and keenly competed for. Owing to the high cost of labor growers are selling most of their fruit in bulk. Loganberries will also bo short of supply. Tomatoes are coming in freely, and prices have cased considerably. All lines </f vegetables offering moot with ready sales, peas being in oversupply and selling as low as per lb. The market is absolutely bare of apples, new season’s realising up to 9d per lb. Bananas are also high in price. The following prices were realised during the week:—• Sparrowbill oats, 2s 6d; Cartons, ss. Chuff, prime oaten, £5. Fowl wheat, 4s 6d. Wheaton straw, £2 10s; oaten, £3. Beeswax, Is 4d to Is 6d. Honey sections, IBs dozen; bulk, &J,d to 7d. Butter, creamery pats, Is sd; bulk, Is 43d; dairy and separator, Is 2d. Cheese, mild. lOd; matured, lid. Ilitchon’s bacon, ll^d. Hams, Is. Apples, new season's, 6d to 8d lb. American Jonathans, 255. Bananas, 255. Adelaide oranges, 30s. Adelaide lemons, 265. Pines, 325. j Strawberries, L, to 3s pottle. I Gooseberries, 2d to od. ! r Cherries, Is to 2s. I ' Tomatoes. Christchurch, lOd to Is; j local, Is Id; Nelson, 7s 6d to 9s. Peaches, crates, 4d ]b; cases, 2d. Apricots, crates, 6dj cases, 2yd to 4u. Cherry plums, I'd. - New potatoes, North Island, 6s cwt; local, ltd. 'Rhubarb, 2d. Peas, 2d to 4d. French beans,. scl. ( Broad beans, 2d. i Melbourne onions. £2s cwt. £ Pigs, best porkers, 7d ; overweight, 3jd; baconers, Tjd. i ilggs, stamped, Is Id; cased, Is. ]