COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 256, 16 October 1911, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON MARKET REPORT. (Own Correspondent) Wellington, Oct. 12. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-.ive Distributing Co., Ltd., report a - , ol lows: — The potato market lias brightened up .omewliat during the week, with inuiller supplies offering anil slightl.p idvanced prices. Holders Mould, h<m-■v<-r. do well in disposing of their tucks without delay. He can still oilei cry good Up-to-Date seeds. Onions are inner, and now is the opportunity for oral growers to send along their holdngs before the new Australian shipneats come to hand in about tun or hree we.-ks’ time. Cabbage and eauli-low<-r are someu hat easier in value, 'arrots, parsnips, and rhubarb meet root! demand. Nelson gre.-n peas have -i-aclieil us in large quantities during ho week, and splendid prices realised. Iran is verv scarce. Maize is firmer. >Ve have still a good stock ol seed naize lor fodder purposes, although we mve sold a very largo quantity. Quotations: — )!d Potatoes —Piime, £3 to £3/ Upper ton. sew Potatoes—Hutt, 3d to 3Jd ; others 2d to 21 per lb. Up-to-date Seed Potatoes —Specially selected, Canterbury grown, £1 to £5 per ton. Unions —Brown Spanish, £8 to £9 per ton.

Aibbage—Small, 2.6: fair, 4/6; choice, 6/(> per sack. Carrots—s;- to 7/- per sack. Cauliflower —Choice, 8/- per sack. I’arsnip.s —6 -to 9/- per sack. Jreen Peas—l /- to 1 /.> per peck. Ihubarb—4/- to 6/6 per doz. Furnips—White. 3/- per sack. Lettuce —Fair, 3- ; choice, 5/- per ■ase. Leeks —I 6 to 6,'- per doz bundles. Asparagus —6 -to 9 doz. bundles. Dessert Apples—Keenly enquired for. ’ooking Apples -Keenly enquired for. "heese —Best factory medium, 6}d per lb. Dressed Pork—7o’s to 90's 5Jd; 90’s to Wil’s, 5(1; baconers, 4^d; choppers (heavy) 31d to -Id. Eggs —Fresh, lOtd to lid per doz. Bacon-• Factory sides 7d, rolls 9Jd, hams 9Jd per lb. Honey —3ld per lb. Slow of sale. Beeswax — 1 5 per H>. Fungus —Id per lb. A'alnuts--wanted. fallow —Tins. 25'- cwt. Poultrv— Cockerels 5 6 to 6'- for good birds, table roosters 5/-, table hens 4- : (lucks, 6.6 to 7/6; turkey gobblers. 8/d per lb : hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize— 3 9 per bus. Wheat -I 5 per bushel. Pollard —£7 per ton. Ton lots, £6,15/3,.., n _£(s 1 _ per ton. Barley Meal £6'lo - per ton. Maize Meal —£8 5 - per ton. Chaff—Oaten Sheaf £6/10/- per ton. Hav— Prime. £5 per ton. Straw—AVheaten. £3 to £3,10/- per ton. Linseed Oil Cake —Genuine, £l4 per tan. Cocoanul Oil Cake —8 6 per cwt. Oats —Fend. 3 6 to 3 8 per bushel. Oats —Seed, Sparrowbills, Gartons, 3 10; Algerians. Australians, 3,T0 per bushel. 1 )at-> Cru-hed. 3 10 per bus.