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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 59, 20 February 1911, Page 7

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WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, Feb, 17. The New Zealand Fanners’ Cooperative Distributing Co., Ltd., report as follows:— per ton. Potatoes have come back in price now the supply is much greater, and the market is dull for any but large choice lots. Onions are unchanged. Vegetables, such as green peas and French beans, are realising high prices, peas being 1/per peck, and beans up to as high as 21d per lb. Swedes and marrows are dull of sale. Cauliflowers are keenly sought after. Nectarines are higher in value, and all fruits meet better demand, except tomatoes, which have dropped slightly. Eggs are advancing, and much larger supplies are wanted. Porkers are rather dull of sale. Oats are very firm, with small offerings. Potatoes. —Prime, £4/10/- to £6 per ton. Onions—Globes, £5 per ton. Cabbage—2/- to 2/6 pel* sack. Green Peas. —Hutt, 1/- per peck. French Beans.—2jd per lb. Carrots —3/6 per sack. Swedes. —1/6 to 2/- sack. Cauliflowers. —8/- to 10/- 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. Blackberries. —3d per lb. Cucumbers — 2/Q per j-case. Peaches. —4/- to 6/- half-case Plums. —Ogans 2/-, Burbanks 3/3 to 4/6, October purple 4/- to 5/-, diamonds 3/6 to 4/- per half-case. Nectarines.—4/6 to 6/- per halfcase.

Dessert Apples—s/6 to 7/6 per case.

Cooking Apples—4/- per case.

Tomatoes —2/- to 3/- per J-case.

Raspberries—ln buckets, 7/6 each Pears—Dessert, 6/- to 7/6; cookers, 4/6 to 5/- per case. Greengages —5/6 per |-case. Grapes.—7d to lOd per lb. Butter—Separator, B|d bulk; 9d to pats ; dairy, B|d to 9d per lb. Cheese —Best factory mediums, 6d per lb; loaf 7d per lb. Dressed Pork—7o’s to 90’s 4d; 90’s to 100’s 3fd ; baconers, 3|d ; choppers (heavy) 2d to 2Ad. Eggs.—Fresh, 1/4 per doz. Bacon —Factory sides 7d, rolls 0d ; hams, 9|d per io.

Honey—3|d per lb. Slow of sale. Beeswax —1/6 per lb. Fungus.— to 5d 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. Maize—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 301 b.

Bran—£s/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 —8/- per cwt. Oats —Good feed Oats, 2/10; A grade, 3/- per bushel. Oats —Seed, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, Storm King, Black Tartars, Black Excelsiors, 3/-; Algerians, 3/6 per bushel. Oats.—Crushed, 3/- per bushel.

SATURDAY MARKET SALE. Messrs. Lundon, Stewart & Co., Ltd., report the following prices at their market sale : — Pigs: Weaners 4/- to 8/6, sows with small litters to 20/-, porkers 39/-. Poultry: Hens 2/- to 3/6, cockerels 2/- to 4/-, young pullets 2/- to 3/6, geese 8/6, ducks 3/- to 3/6, all per pair. Potatoes: Prime at 7/- to 9/- per cwt., pig potatoes 3/- to 4/- per sack. Wheat, 15/6 per sack. Apples 1/6 to 3/3, pears 1/6 to 3/-, tomatoes 1/6 to 4/- all per half-case, watermelons 6'- tn 15/- per doz; bacon 6.1 d per lb. All other produce at last quotations.