COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 202, 14 August 1911, Page 11

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY PRODUCE REPORT. Wellington, Aug. 11. The New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative. Distributing Co., Ltd., report as follows:—Potatoes are unchanged. Onions are also about the same as last week. Eggs are weaker, with largesupplies offering. Vegetables, especially good lines of cabbage and cauliflower, are bringing good prices, with excellent demand. Apples are in keen enquiry. Porkersr are wanted. Walunts are in very short supply, Oats are firmer. Potatoes —Prime £4/10/- per ton.

Up-to-Date Seed Potatoes — Specially selected, Canuerbury £6 to £6/10/- per ton. According to quantity. Onions—Australian Brown Spanish, £6/10/- to £7 per ton. Cabbage—7/6 to 12/6 per sack. Carrots—l/- to 6/- per sack. Swedes—2/- to 3/- sack. Cauliflower—ls/- to 23/- per sack Marrows—4/- to 5/- per sack. Turnips—White, 6d to 9d per doz Lettuce—Fair, J/-; choice, 2/- to 2/6 per case. Pumpkins—6/- to 7/- per sack. Pie Melons—B/6 to 9/6 per sack. Dessert Apples—lo/- per case. Cooking Apples—B/6 per case. Cheese —Best factory sfd per lb ; loaf, 7d per lb Dressed Pork—7o’s to 90’s 5d to 51d? 90’s to 100’s 5d ; baconers, 4|d ; choppers (heavy), 3d ; suckers, 7d. Eggs—Fresh, 1/1 per doz. Bacon—Factory sides 7d, rolla 9|d, hams, 9.jd per io. Honey—4d per lb. Beeswax. —1/5 per lb. Fungus—4Zd per lb. Walunts —Market bare.

Tallow—Tins, 23/6 cwt. Poultry—Cockerels, 5/6 to 6/- for good birds ; table roosters, 5/ ; tablehens, 3/6 to 4/- ; ducks, 5/6 to 6/6; turkey gobblers, 8d to B.’ d per lb; hens, 7gd to 8d per lb live weight. Maize—3/4 to 3/6 per bus. Wheat-—4/- to 4/2 per bus. Barley (feed)—3/- to 3/3 per bus. Barley (Cape)—3/10 per bus. Pollard —£7/10/- per ton. Ton lots £7.

Bran—£6 per ton. Barley Meal—£7 per ton. Maize Meal—£B/5/- per ton. Molasses Fodder—£s/10/- per ton. Chaff—Oaten sheaf, £6 to £6/10/per ton. Hay—Prime, £4/10/- to £5 per ton. Sucrosine—£6/10/- per ton. Straw—Whcaten, £3 to £3/10/pcr ton. Linseed Oil Cake—Genuine, £IB per ton. Oats—Feed, 3/3 per bushel. Oats —Seed, Sparrowbills, Gaas tons, 3/5; Storm Kings, 3/6; Duns, Algerians, Dressed Australian* 3/10 per bus. Lundon, Stewart and Co., Ltd., report the fallowing prices at their weekly market sale.—Pigs: Wearier s 8/6 to 11/-, slips 11/6 to 15/-, light porkers 22 '6 to 27/6. Poultry : Hens 4/- to 5/2, ducks 5/- to 7/- pera pair. Prime- table potatoes 7/- to 9/- ,medium 4/6 to 6/6, pig potatoes3/6, maize 5 - to 5 3, pumpkins 3/-, carrots 3/9, all per sack ; onions Id to l{d per lb; hay (threshed) 2/per bale, straw chall 2/-, O.S. chaff 4/9 per sack, apples (inferior) 1/to 4/6 per half case. Other producer at satisfactory prices .