FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 19002, 25 July 1925, Page 12

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Bray Bros. (Dunedin). Ltd., report as follows for the week ended today ; i The chaff market continues quiet, i and it is only good quality that is ■ being placed at round about £5 5s per ton (sacks extra). The stores still hold a fair quantity of medium and poor quality chaff, and this is unsale- | able. The oat market is quiet; little i interest is being shown in the market, 1 only occasional lines being on offer, i The present value in the country is about 3s 6d per bushel (sacks extra), ; but holders arc asking 4s. The nominal price, f.0.b., s.i., is 4s 8d for A’s | and 4s 3d for B’s. There is no change 'in the wheat market. Australian j wheat has been lauded in the dominion, ! but none so far has come to Dunedin. There is very little wheat <n offer, and any small lots arriving are being sold as fowl wheat, and the value to-day is round about 7s Cd per bushel (sacks extra). Dunedin millers’ prices are as follow: —Flour, £lB 10s; bran, £8 10s; pollard, £9 10s; oatmeal, £26. Bran and pollard are in short supply. Potatoes have firmed up in price during the week. There has been a good inquiry from Auckland, and also from Australia. There are. still a fair quantity of potatoes held by growers, but the wet weather has prevented them from forwarding them to the markets. The future prices all depend on what effect the wet weather has had on the potatoes that are pitted and those loft in the ground, together with the inquiries from Australia, but everything points to the market holding firm. The onion mar- , kot has also firmed up. This was cxj peeled, ana prices win go suil mgtier, : as imported onions cannot bo landed under £2O a ton. Business in the fruit marts has been quiet during the week. Supplies of apples are more than equal to the demand. A few I lines of pears are coming forward, but i the quality is nothing special. Im- ; ported fruits are now getting in short supply owing to the disorganised state of the shipping. There is a good demand for all clean lines of vegetables, particularly cabbages and cauliflowers. Honey is also meeting with better sales, and some good samples are coming to hand. Tne luiuer ana cheese market has firmed up, and everything , points to the prices holding. There is also a good demand for eggs, and any lines coming forward are readily placed at market quotations. The following prices were realised during the , week: — ; Chaff.—Prime oaten, £5 ss; oaten straw, £3; wheaten, £2 10s. Wheat, fowl, 7s 6d bushel. Honey.—Bulk, s)d lb; 101 b tins, Cs; £lb pats, 4s 3d dozen. Hams, Is 2^d. Bacon,'Hitchon’s, Is 2d. Cheese, 9Jd to lid. Butter.—Factory, Is 7£d; separator pats, lid to Is. 1 Apples.—Dessert, 10s to 12s; cook- ■ ers, 4s 6d to 6s. j Pears, Winter Nelis, 4d. I Tomatoes, local, Is 9d lb | Pines, 22s 6d. ; Oranges.—Poorraans, 14s 6d; navels, 25s to 30s. Passions, 22s 6d. Bananas, ripe, 30s. Potatoes, Stirling-Ontram grown. £6 ,to £7 10s. Onions, 14s to 16s cwt. , Walnuts, 9d to lOd. Carrots, 4s Gd to 5s 6d cwt. Parsnips. 8s 6d cwt. Vegetable marrows. 8s cwt. Cabbage, firsts, 12s sack. 1 Cauliflowers, firsts, 10s to 12s sack. Cucumbers, local, 12s dozen. Lettuce, 3s dozen. Pigs.—Best porkers. G*d to 7(1; ibaconers, 7d ; overweight, 3id. , ! Eggs.—New laid, 2s 6d; stamped. 2s 3d; preserved, la Od