COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 326, 12 January 1914, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WELLINGTON PRICES. FRUIT AND PRODUCE. [special to “the tribvne.’’] The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Co., Ltd., report as follows for the week ended January 9th: Potatoes are in full supply, and low values are ruling. The Waikato district has this year been responsible for the increased quantity. Onions are coming in from Australia, and also from Auckland, and present values are hound to decline rapidly. Eggs are in good •supply, and price is steady. Pork i.s in steady demand, with special enquiries for slips, suckers and light porkers. Poultry is easier in demand since the holidays. New chaff is now on the market, but old lines arc still enquired for. Crops promise well in most dist -iets, and value this year for chaff is likely to be somewhat lower. Oats are unchanged. Wheat is firm, and no apj preciahie lowering of vahies is anticipated with the advent of the new crop. Maize is selling at a reasonable rate.

Fruit. —The strawberry season is now drawing to a close. During the past six weeks we have handled no less than 5500 crates of a total net weight of 40 tons. Large shipments of stone fruit :re arriving, with low values ruling. Diack currants and raspberries are in excellent sale. Tomatoes will rapidly decline in price as supply increases. Rhubarb. poor demand. Vegetables. —Peas, beans and cabbage /•.re plentiful, with poor prices. Carrots end parsnips in fair demand.

Quotations: — Potatoes —£3/10'- to £4 per ton. Choice Cabbage—l/6 to 2/- per sack. Carrots —1 - to 5/- per sack. Parsnips —Choice, 6/- to "/- per sack. Rhubarb--3 - per dozen. Turnips—White, 3/- to 1 - per sack. ! Lettuce-r-Choiee 3d- to 5/- per case, ! ethers 2/- to 2 / 6. I Green Peas —Nelson. 3/- to 5/- per bag. ■ tomatoes—Hutt 5d per lb, Nelson 4 - | to 7/- per half-case. i French Beans—2 -to 3- per part sack. • Marrows—2/3 to 3/- per case. ’ Swedes —3/6 to 4/- per cwt. 'Strawberries —1/- to I'3 per lb. ■ Burbank Plums—2'6 to 3.6. choice •>. - I to 5 6 per half-case. i Blue Plums—3 -to 3 6 per half-case. I Apricots —Prime 4 - to 5/-.‘ others 2 6 • to 3 '6 per half-case. I Peaches—l 9 to 3/6 per half-case. I Black Currents —6/- per half-case. j Raspberries—s/6 to 6/6 per bucket. . Nectarines—2/6 to 4 - per half-case. • Dessert Pearfr —3. - to 5 - per half-case. • Poultrv —Hens 3/6. good table bens 4. -. i heavy cockerel- 6.’-; good heavy ! young ducks 6 6. Indian Runners I ’1 6 to 5 - per pair; ttvkny gobblers i / 1-. hens lid per lb iiv-’ weigh.- : Dross»d Pork —7()’s to 90 s ssd to s ; ld, : 90’s to IfXl’s srl. baconers 4ld to i lilrl. choppers (heavy) 3ld per lb. ■ How —3’d to 4d per lb. 'Chec‘0 —Best Inctorv mefl-’ums, Gd ner I lb.

t Eggs—Fresh. I 1 per dozen. i Walnuts —7d per lb. ■! Tallow —Tins. 20'- to 25 - per cwt. , o atr ,—Feed 2/8 to 2 10, Duns 32. ! crushed 3 - pe • bushel. > Russian Cape Seed Barley 3’b pet I bushel. o'hne Barlev Seed—3 6 per bushel. • Seed Oat«-NSpeeial!y dressed Algerians | 39, Gartons, Sparrow bills. Duns. Storm Kings, 3/6 per bushel. •Choice New Season’s B.L.E. Rape—3s - | per cwt. • Haise —I HO per bushel. 'Seed Maize —Red Hogan, White Horse 1 Tenth 7 '6 per bushel. ■ Wheat —5 - per bushel, ten sack lots • 4'11; seconds 4 3. i Feed Barlev —3 9 per bushel. | Pollard—£6 15 - per ton, 5 - less for ! ton lots. i Bran—£4/15 - per ton. 5 - less for ton I lots. ~ , : Barley Meal—£6 10 - per ton, 10/- less ! for ton lots. ! Chaff —Oaten sheaf, old £6 per ton ex ! store; new, £5 5- ex wharf. ! Hav —Prime new wanted. Straw—£3/10 - per ton ex store.