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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 230, 2 September 1912, Page 3

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WELLINGTON PRODUCE MARKET. (Special to “ Tribune.”) Wellington, Aug. 30Potatoes still maintain values as last week, and sales are readily made. Tht market is under-supplied. Seed potatoes are firmer, and ihe demand is nowto hand. Onions are in limited dinanc at present exceptionally high rates. Separator and dairy butter is in good enquiry. Eggs are remaining steady, and with no indications of change it; values. Porkers are in excellent de mand. Large orders are coming t< hand for Mount Lyell superphosphate which is arriving weekly, the supple being unaffected by the recent dislocation of shipments through strikes, as is the ease with English lines. Tallow iin good sale. Honey has sold readib during the last few weeks, and a short age is anticipated during the next few mouths. Apples have come to hand it fairly large quantities from Nelson, ano the market is easier; the lower price; are also accounted for by the fact that many recent arrivals have been in : shrivelled and bruised condition. Cauliflowers and somewhat weaker, but cabbage is exceptionally high and scarce Parsnips iue plentiful, but other vege tables, especially pumpkins, aie in brisl demand. Chaff is dull, and all grain; are quiet, but grass seed orders foi spring sok?- X are now coming in. Thi now famoww Western Wolths ryegress grown in Holland, is being freely book ed up. Turkeys are especially enquired for; much larger supplies Wanted. Quotations: Potatoes—Prime, £7/10/- to £8 per toi Seed Potatoes—Up-to-date £6 to £( 10/-, White Beauty of Hebron £8 Northern Star £6 to £6/10/.-, Earl; Puritan £7 to £7/10/-, Gamekeepe. £8 per ton. Onions—£2l per ton. Cabbage—4/- to 8 - per sack. Carrots—3/6 to 5 - per sack.

Cauliflower—s/- to 12/- per sack. Parsnips—3/- to 3/6 per sack. Swedes-—2/- to 2/6 per cut. Turnips—White, 2/- to 2/6 per sack. Lettuce—6/- to 8/- per case. Pumpkins—lo/- to 12/6 per sack. Apples—Coopking, Epp’s Seedling 4/ to 5/-, others 6/- to 7/6 per case dessert, 6/- to 9/- per case. Cheese—/Best factory mediums, 7d loaf, 7)d to 8d per lb. Mandarines-7/- to 10/6. • Sydney Oranges—lo/- to 12/-. Seville Oranges—7/- to 7/6. Passions —-8/- to 8/6. Butter —Separator > ll)d, milled lid dairy lid per lb. Eggs—Fresh, 1/- per doz. Dressed Pork—7o’s to 90’s 64d, !X)’s t< 100’s 6jd ; baconers 54d to 6d, chop pens (heavy) 3d to slips 7d suckers 7)d per lb. Honey—ld to 4Jd per lb. Beeswax —1/5 to 1/6 per lb. Fungus—3sd to 4d per lb.

Tallon •-Tins, 21 - per cwt. Poultry—Cockerels 4/6 to 6/- for gooc bonis, table roosters. 4/6, tabh hens 3/6 to 5/-; ducks 5/6 to 6/( per pair; turkey gobblers lOd pei lb, hens 9<l per lb live weight. Maize—s/9 per bushel. Wheat—4/6 per bushel. Ten sack lot; 4/4. Feed Barley—4J/8 per bushel. ■ Peas, Partridge—4/- per bushel. Horse Beans—4/3 to 4/6 per bushel. Pollard —£7/10/- per ton. Bran —£5/15/- to £6 per ton. Barley Meal—Jß7 per ton. Pea and Wheat Meal—£7/5/- per ton Chaff—Oaten Sheaf £4/10/- to £5/5/per ton ex store. Hay—Prime £1 to £4-10/- per ton Meadow Hay (for stock feeding)---!’! ju truck .lots. -

Straw-—£3/5/- per ton ex store. Soya Bean Cake —£12 10 - per ton. A splendid stock food. Oats—Feed 2/8 to 2/10, Duns 2 11 per bushel; crushed, 3 3 per bushel. Seed, Cape Barley —1/- per bushel. Seed Oats—Algerians 3/8, Gartons, Excelsiors, Sparrowbills, Black Rivals, Duns, 3 ; 6 per bushel.