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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 53, 13 February 1911, Page 11

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WEEKLY REPORT. The New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Distributing Co., Ltd., report as followsWellington, Feb. 10. Potatoes have been in rather short supply, and values higher. Southern early grown are now reaching here, and there is every probability of a decline as supply from south increases. We advise North Island clients to sell while the market is favourable. Canterbury Globe Onions, as well as Australian, can be landed at nominal rates. In fruit, the chief feature of recent sales has been the keen demand at high prices for highly coloured dessert apples and pears. We to-day sold purple plums at 5/6, while Organs were hard to quit at 2/-. The late discharge of cargo from Nelson and Motueka boats often necessitated holding lots over till next day, hence the delay in arrival of some of our clients’ returns. Eggs are firmer, and keenly enquired for. Grass seed orders are now reaching us by each mail, and large quantities are going forward.

Potatoes —Prime, £5/10/- to £6 per ton, Onions —Globes, 55 per ton.' Cabbage—2/- to 2/6 per sack. Green Peas —Hutt, lid per peck. French Beans —2d per lb. Carrots—3/6 per sack. Swedes —1/6 to 1/9 sack. Cauliflower —8/- to 9/- per sack. Marrows —1/6 per sack. Turnips—White, 4d to 5d doz. Lettuce —Choice, 1/- to 1/6 per case.

Rhubarb —1/- to 1/6 per doz. Strawberries —1/- per lb. Blackberries —2id to 3d per lb. Cucumbers —2/6 per I-case. Peaches—3/- to 7/- 4-case. Plums —Organs, 1/6 to 2/-; Burbanks, 2/- to 2/6; October Purple, 4/- to 5/-; Diamonds, 2/9 to 3/- per A-case. • Nectarines—3/- to 5/- per |-case. Dessert Apples—s/6 to 7/6 per case. Cooking Apples—4/- per case* Tomatoes—2/- to 3/- per Lease. Raspberries—ln buckets, 7/6 each Pears —Dessert, 6/- to 7/6 ; cookers, 4/6 to 5/- per case. Greengages—s/6 per |-case. Grapes—7d to 9d per lb. Butter—Separator, B|d bulk; 9d to 9|d pats; dairy, B|d to 9d per lb. Cheese —Best factory mediums, 6d per lb; loaf 7d per lb. Dressed Pork —70’s to 90’s 4d; 90’s to 100’s 3fd; baconers, 31<i; choppers (heavy) 2d to

Eggs—Fresh, 1/2 per doz. Bacon—Factory sides 7d, rolls 9d; hams, 9|d per io. Honey—3jd per lb. Slow of sale. Beeswax—l/6 per lb. Walnuts—6d per lb. Tallow—Tins, 28/- cwt. Poultry—Cockerels, 5/6 for . good birds; small, 3/-; table roosters, 5/-; table hens, 3/- .to 3/6; ducks, 4/- to 5/- per pair; turkey gobblers, lOd per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Poor demand. , Mdfe-e—3/6 per bus. Wheat—4/- per bus. Barley (feed) —3/- per bus. Barley, Cape—3/6 per bus. Dun Peas—4/- per bushel. Pollard —£7 per ton. Oat Pollard— 2/6 sack of about 901 b. Bran —£5/10/- per ton. Molasses Fodder —£5 per ton. Chaff —Oaten Sheaf, £5/5/- ton. Hay—Prime, £3/10/- to £4 per ton. Sucrosine—£6/10/- per ton. Straw —Wheaten, £2/7/6 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake—Genuine, £l3 per ton. Cocoanut Oil Cake—B/- per cwt. Oats —Good feed Oats, 2/10; A grade, 3/- per bushel. Oats —Seed, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, Storm King, Black Tartars, 3/-; Algerian, 3/6 per bus.

Lundon, Stewart and Co.; Ltd., report the following prices at their weekly market sale. Pigs : weanera 5/6 to 7/-, poor and inferior 2/3 to 3/-, slips 10/- to 17/6, light porkers 22/-. Poultry: hens 2/6 to 6/-, cock2/- to 4/6 heavy, young and inferior 1/- to 2/- per pair, ducks 3/to 4/-, all per pair. Potatoes : prime table 7/9 to 11/6 per sack, 1/9 to 2/3 per sugar bag; pig potatoes 4/- to 4/3 per sack. Apples, 2/6 to 3/3, pears 2/6 to 3/3, peaches 6/-, tomatoes 1/9 to 3/6, all per |-case. Wheat 15/6 per sack. Other produce at satisfactory prices.