FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 19020, 15 August 1925, Page 22

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Bray Bros., Dunedin, Ltd., report as follows for the week ended to-day:— The chaff market is a little firmer, but inquiries are for prime lines only. This is worth round about £5 10b a ton, sacks extra, ex trucks. Medium and poor quality is slow of sale, and prices are ruling from £3 10s to £4 10s according to quality. The oat market continues lifeless, very few inquiries coming forward. The North Islapd merchants continue to draw their feed oats from Canterbury. The current quotations to-day are 4s sd, f.0.b., s.i., for A Garfcons, and 4s 2d for B Gartons. Those prices are only nominal, very little business passing. The wheat market is firmer. Good lines of wheat aro still coming forward, and these are soiling for fowl wheat, the demand for which is on the quiet side. It is quoted round about 7s 3d per bushel, sacks extra. Millers’ prices for flour, under the new arrangements, remain unchanged. Flour, £iß 10s per ton; bran, £8 10s per ton; pollard, £9 10s per ton; and oatmeal, £26 per ton. Bran and pollard have been in short supply. The potato market is firming, and host lines are selling up to £8 5s per ton. There is a good inquiry from the. North Island, and also inquiries from Australia, and everything points to potatoes still rising in price. The late Hoods that they had in the north, together will) the demand from Australia, lias altered the position of the market, and any good lines aro readily taken up. Seed potatoes are offering freely, and sales are slow. The onion market lias also firmed. Some firstclass lines of Canterbury grown are offering, and these are selling round about 20s per cwt. Prices will be maintained. and as soon as the Canterbury's are finished Japanese onions will be quoted round about 24s to 25s a cwt. These aro expected to arrive same time in September. Business in the fruit marts has been a little more active. Shipments of Australian fruit have come to hand, and some of the oranges and mandarins arrived in a bad condition, which makes the price for good fruit rule high. Bananas have also been coming forward, End some of these have arrived in over-ripe condition. _ The uncertainly and delay in the shipping is fatal to the importation of fruit. The demand for apples is confined to best lines, such as Stunners and Delicious. Cooking apples have a fair inquiry, but poor quality are difficult to quit. A feature of the market is the high prices ruling for cabbages and cauliflowers, but parsnips, carrots, and other vegetables aro in good supply, and prices aro moderate. The egg market lias cased, and everything points to it still coming back, but prices are likely to be firmer this season than in previous ones. Honey is in good demand, and best lines aro worth aid per lb. Cheese and butter —market is firm, there being a good inquiry for fully matured cheese. Bacon and hams are in good supply, and everything points to the market advancing. Christmas hams in particular have advanced Id per lb for early quotations. There is a good, steady demand for all good lines of fruit and produce. The following prices were realised during the week:— Chaff.—Prime oaten, £5 5s to £6. Oaloa straw, £3 10s; wheaton, £2 10s. Wheat.—Fowl, 7s 6d bushel. Honey.—Bulk, old lb; 101 b tins, 63; Jib pats, 4s 3d dozen. Hams, Is 3d. Bacon.—Hitchon’s, Is 2d. Cheese, 9jd to lid. Butter.—Factory, Is BJd; separator pats, Is 3d. Apples.—Dessert, 10s to 12s; cookers, 4s Od to 6s. Pears.—Winter Nelis, 4d. Tomatoes.—Local, Is 9d lb. Pines, 22s 6d. Oranges.—Poorman, 14s 6d; navel, 20s to 275. Passions, 22s 6d. Bananas.—Ripe, 80s. Potatoes. Stirling-Ontram grown, £6 to £B. Onions, ISs to 22s cwt. Walnuts, Del to 1 Od. Carrots, 4s 6d to 5s Gd cwt. Parsnips, 8s 6d cwt. Vegetable marrows, 8s cwt. Cabbages.—Firsts, 15s sack. Cauliflowers.—Firsts, 10s to 16s sack. Cucumbers.—Local, 12s dozen. Lettuce, 3a dozen. Beeswax, Is 3d. Pigs.—Best porkers. 6Jd to 7d; baconers, 7d; ovorweignt, 3)d. Eggs.—New laid, Is 8d; stamped, Is 6d.