FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Evening Star, Issue 19298, 10 July 1926, Page 12

FRUIT AND PRODUCE

Bray Bros., Ltd., report as follows for the week ended to-day;— The chalf market is steady, but very little shipping is taking place. The demand is principally local, and good quality is worth round about £6 per ton (sacks extra), ex truck. Medium and poor quality is slow ot saie, round about £4 ids per ton. The oat market continues to be very slow. There is no uemancl Iroiu tno iSorth island, and stocks are sufficient to keep mercnaiits going lor some time. Lad lots are still oil'ering from growers, but very little business is passing. A grade Gortons are worth 4s 2d, f.0.b., s.i., and B’s 3s lid. Under-grade oats have a little inquiry, but until imported Chilian oats have been worked off there is little chancy ol doing business hi the shipping line. The wheat maiket is keeping steady. If millers want Australian milling wheat they have to pay the duty of 2s per cental, and merchants have to pay the duty of £3 per ton on imported (lour. The Minister of Agriculture is quite definite on this matter. Merchants who are in touch with Ihe milling industry state that there is sufficient wheat and (lour (including what has been imported) in New Zealand to-day to meet all requirements until new season’s wheat is available. it is reported that growers have made forward sales for next season’s wheat at 5s Cd Milline wheat is nominally quoted at 7s bushel (sacks extra), ex truck, to-day. The fowl wheat market is quiet, stocks are accumulating, and prices range round about 7s per bushel. Millers’ prices are as follow; Flour, £lB 10a. Bran, £8 10s. Pollard, £9 ,10s. Oatmeal, £24.

The potato market is firm. Shipments axe still being sent to Australia, and there is a better inquiry from the North Island. The latest advice from Sydney states-that-New Zealand potatoes are realising from £ll to £l2- per ton landed there. These potatoes have to be packed in new sacks, and there is a duty of £1 per ton, and freight and other charges have- to bo paid. Fair stocks are held in .Dunedin, and these arc offering round about £7 IDs per ton for best quality. The onion market is firm, 1 prices having advanced to £lB per ton for best quality. Canterbury merchants are quoting them round about £lfi per ton, on trucks Growers are holding firm for increased prices, but Japanese onions will ho on the market shortly, and those will m doubt have effect on Canterbury grown. Business in the fruit marts lias been slow during the week. The market is bare of 'citrus fruits. _ Lemons and oranges are very high in price. The shipping has been most uncertain, 'the next A ns<rainn ho it is the Karel u. which loaded at Sydney for Melbourne, Wellington, Lyttelton, and Dunedin, It is expected here about the 20r.h ol Ihc month. This round + rip is most unsatisfactory for the fruit trade. Apples are in good supply, hut the demand is for best dessert and cookers.

Good pears are in short supply. Some small linos of hothouse tomatoes aro coming on to the market, and these are. realising high prices. Bananas aro still in short supply. .Cauliflowers are realising bettor prices. Cabbages are in good supply, and prices low. There is a fair demand for all g/tod, clean lines of fruit and vegetables. The egg market has eased. Guaranteed fresh eggs aro selling at Is 9d per dozen. Hams and bacon are in good supply, and bacon has eased Id lb during the week. Honey is offering freely round about 5.)d lb. There is a good inquiry for dairy pat butter, and beeswax is wanted. Cheese is mooting with better sales, there being a good inouiry for fully matured cheese. The following prices wore realised during the week; — Chaff. —Prime oaten, £6 to £6 10s. Oaten straw, £3 to £3 10s. Wheaton straw, £3. Fowl wheat, 7s 9d .bushel. Oats.—A Gartons, 4s; B Gartens, 3s 6d.

Honey.—Choice bulk, to s)d: sections, 10s to 11s dozen; pats, ilb, 4s 6d ; pats, 11b, 9s; 101 b tins, 6s. Cheese. Od to lid. Bacon.—Hitchon’s, is 4d. Hams, Is 4ld. Butter.—Dairy pats, to Is 3d; bulk, Is sd; factory pats, Is 61d. Vegetable marrows, to 10s. . Pumpkins, 9s. Pie melons, 15s cwt. Swede turnips, to 3s cwt. Onions. —Canterbury, 17s cwt. Onions.—Pickling, to I6s. Potatoes.—Outran! and Stirling, £7 ss; Canterbury and Oamaru, £7 to £7 10s. Garlic, 9d lb. Cabbages, to 5s hag. Cauliflowers, 3s to 11s dozen. Eggs.—Stamped, Is 9d; ca-sed, Is 8d; preserved, Is 6d. Carrots, to 7s cwt. Parnsips, to ,6s cwt. Beeswax, to Is 3d. Pigs.—Best porkers, to 8d ; bneoners, to 7)d ; overweight, 5d lb. Apples.—Delicious, to 12s case; other desserts, to 7s case; choice cookers, to 6s ease ; other cookers, to 4s 6d case. Tomatoes.—Loe-al, 2s 6d. Bananas. —Ripe, 30s to 32s Gd; green Rarotongas, 15s to 255; Fiji?, green, to 255. ‘ Mandarins, to 24s case. Navel oranges, to 20s. Auckland lemons, to 20s. Auckland Poonnnn oranges, 14s Gd case. Rhubarb, to id lb. Pears. — Quarter cases. 3s fid in 5s cas": dump eases. 7s case. Walnuts, fid lb. l.ethiee, 2s 3d dozen. C<dery, to fid for hunch of four sticks.