COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 237, 21 September 1914, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. London. Sept. ID. Wheat. —Dull; 46.6 asked for Australian afloat. Butter. —Danish -raised I kronen. London quotation. 124 - to 130;'-. Hemp.—lnactive. High poiut fair £23 Rubber. —Para 2 plantation 2-, “moked - 'LI. Silver, Is 11 L'l-lfid. Copper. £5” 5 - to £5” 15..-. Aluminium, £!)1 o> £‘!!2. Quicksih <•!'. £132. Molybdenite.—Nominally unchanged. WELLINGTON FRUIT A PRODUCE. Opeciai. to “the tbibune.”) 'A\ I'inglon. Sept. 1!). Tlie New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Co.. Ltd., reports as follows for the we'- 1 - iost ended:— Eii.-iness g.'iier.-dly has been good daring the past v eek. and there is .cry evidence of ir-avy spring .owing ;tnl planting: all ik.'. is now required is a reasonable raii:!>. l !. Potatoes are the only food line thal li.is gone down in price, and rtihu’s are again lower this week. Seed potatoes are- still enquired for. ami in -;ympatiiy with table quality are selling at lower rates. Porkers and baconers meet with keen competition at top rates, and the supply is nothing like equal to the demand. Slag and super, orders continue to come forward, and even at the advanced pri-o supplies are limited. Wheat has again advanced in the South, and good lines are very hard to secure, owing to the keen buying by millers of quality which in other -seasons would have been available as fowl wheat, but which is now being used for milling purposes, and should the embargo on Australian flour continue, there is little doubt flour will see a higher level. Barley is in fair demand, with no alteration in price. Cha fl' i.s firmer, and there is every prospect of present values being maintained. Fair business is passing in cats, and the Southern market is very firm at late- rates. Seed Algerians are selling freely, and prime samples are -scarce. Although the lover freight rate <m the railway for seed wheat expires this week, there is still every reason why those who can should sow this cereal, as everything points to high prices ruling next year. Grass seeds of all descriptions are in good demand, and as European supplies in the near future aro problematical, ruling rates should be good buying. Choice cauliflowers and cabbages meet with ready sale at satisfactory prices. All root vegetables realise lower rates, but are in good demand. Green peas are coining to hand from Nelsen, and are selling freely under keen competition. Rhubarb is arriving in fair quantities, but with the continued fine weather supplies should increase materially. Apples and orangos arc in short supply. and command high rates. We quote:— Potatoes —Choice, £3 15 - to £4 per

ton. Onions —Local, £8 per ton; good samples. Cabbage-—Choice 6 6 to 9/-, others 3/to 4/- per sack. Cauliflower —Choice 7/6 to 10/-, others 3/- to 4/- per sack. Beetroot —Choice, 5/- to 5/6 per sack. Carrots—Choice 5'- to 6/-, others 4/to 4 6 per sack. Parsnips—Choic-*. 5 6 to 6'6 per sack. Peas —Nelson. 2 '6 to 2'9 per peck. Pumpkins—lronhark, 10/- per sack. Swedes —2'6 ner cwt. Tu-nins—White. 5/- per -sack. t nttuce —Choice. 5'- to 6 - per case. P^rhnrb —7 '6 to 9.'- per do’. Hird’es. AnpJ-s—Large cookers 7/- to 8/6, others 5/- to 6'-: dessert, choice S'- to 11/-. fair 6/6 tp 7/- per case. l*i,u’try--Good table hens 4/- to 5/6 b ar, cockerels 5'- to 6 '6. good heavy ducks 6/6 to 7/-. Indian Rure.e-< 6 - per pair: turkey gobblers 10d to lid per lb, hens 8d to 9d per lb live weight. Dressed Pork— 70’s to 90’s 6ijcl, 90’s to 100’s old to 6d, baconers 5d to 51d choppers (heavy) 3i|d per lb. Honey—ld to I Jil per lb. Honey Sections —6/- to 6/6 per dozen. Cheese —Re't factory mediums, 6}d lb. Eggs—Fresh. 11 Id to II- per dozen. Beeswax —1/4 per lb. Fungus—old per lb. M anted. Walnut -<d per lb. Wheat —Prime 5 6 per bm-hel; ten sack lots 5'4: whole 5'2, choice seed Tuscan 6 3 per bushel. Maize-— Local, 5/3 per bushel. Oats —Feed 3/3, Duns 3/3 per bushel, Id per bushel less for 10 sack lots; crushed, 3/6 per bushel. Feed Barley—3 2 per bushel. Feed Peas —-4 4 per bushel. Seed Oats —Algerians 3/6, specially dressed Australian 3/9; Gartons. Sparrowbills, Duns 3/9, Storm Kings 3 9 per bushel. Peas—We have several lines of farmers’

seed peas-, Stratagem, Yorkshire Hero, etc. Price 6/6 per bushel. Chaff —Oaten sheaf £5 per ton ex store. Special quotations for large lots. Straw —£3 per ton, ex store. Seed Potatoes—Up-to-date. Northern Star. Gamekeejier £4 per ton, or £1 10 - for less quantities. HASTINGS SATURDAY MARKET. Beard. Bullen and Co. report as follows re their Saturday market sale: Only a small yarding of dairy stock and fair pens of pigs anti poultry- came forward for sale. Prices for all live stock remain a, about recent quoted prices. Good forward weaner pigs, however, met with -very spirited k-mand. We quote:—Dairv cows, £5 15- to £6. Pigs: Store pig 19 -. 7 wcaners at 16/-, 6 at 13 9. 4 at 13 3. 3 at II -, 2 at 10,-. 4at 9,6. Bull calf, 13 6. Poultry: Hens and pullets 5'6 to S—, cockerels 6 - to 8/4 per pair. Apples 2/6 to 5 -, lemons 5 -. oranges (poor man) 2 6 per half-case. Table potatoes 7/to 9 - per sack, seed potatoes sto 8 6. pig potatoes 2/- per sack; pumpkins 2 9 to 4 -. carrots 2- to 23, parsnips'? 6 to 4 9 per sack, cauliflower 3 - to 4 - per dozen. Harness, furniture- and sundries sold well at satisfactory prices. Lut>do:i. Stewart and Co.. Ltd., report as follows <i>i their regular weekly sale he'd la-t Saturday:--We offered a wry large consignment of produce, liuit. sundries, furniture ami live and dead stock to a very large attendance <.i the public. A large entry’ of pigs came forward, chiefly weaners, and sold uml.-r the hamme;-. Poultry sold well. Quotations: Cow ami calf £5 2'6, 1 at t'S. belie,- £7 19 -. Pigs: Porker I’ll -. I weaners 13 -. 2 at 9 3, 8 at 15 9, 6 at 30 -. I weaners 13 -. 2 at <; 3. s a. J.-, <», 0 at 1.-, I at 12 3. 3 al ,!■’ 6. 2 at 1 I 9. 3 weaners (good) -■> -. 3 at 19 6. 6 at 10 -. I at 9 9, 3 at S-. Poultry: Hens 5 B>to 66, roosters 5 - t<> (> -. all per pair. Produce: Potatoes 5 - to 9 -. s.b. lots 2-, seed pot at, k-s 5- to '.I ; cauliflowers 2/- to 5 - per dozen, 5 6 per sack: onions Id to l|d per lb: oats 3 -, bran ll'-. pollard 16 •-. wheal 18 - to 19/c.s. chaff 3- to I - pm- .-ack. A large consignment <3 sundries, implements, tools, rlc.. changed hands at satisfactory prices.