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DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET. BRAY BROS’. REPORT. [SVECIAL TO THE “tBIBUNE.”] Bray Bros, (of Dunedin). Ltd. report as iollows tor the week ending June 24th, 1916:— V heat.—Prime milling lines are in good demand at quotations whilst fowl wheat is in over supply and the demand therefore only nominal. Oats.—The market is unsettled and ho.ders are sitting tight preferring not to quote to any extent. All good lines are in strong demand. The recent heavypurchases have creat«<d the feeling that oats will now remain firm.
CliaF. — Supplier arjuiing forward more Ireely and a good demand is experienced for all prime lines—medium to inferior being hard to place. Potatoes.—The n-ai-k->t is firm and prime samples are in demand at an advance en last wwk s pikes. Eggs.—3o.ooo dozen American eggs have arrived in the colony and have temporarily reduced northern market prices to below Dunedin prices. Tea.—Commons show a hardening tendency.
Fruit.—A shipment of Island oranges arrived on Thursday but opened out indifferently. Bananas: A shipment of 1300 eases arrives on Monday and should meet a fair market. Supplies of local fruits-—chiefly apples —have been coming forward freely and all coloured lines of good quality’have found ready purchasers at high price-. The following prices wore realised during the week:—Apple*, desserts (Jonathans) 3d to 3Jd. Cleopatras 3d. cookers 2d to 2Ndper lb; pears, dessert (Winter Nelis and Honatbans; 3d to 3Jd, cookers Id per lb: tomatoes, local 1 per lb ; grapes, local 2, lld per lb ; oranges (repacks) 10, - to 13 - per case: lemons, Adelaide 1” 6. American 32 6 per case : peanuts 3d. walnuts Sd to 81d per lb ; cabbage up to 4 6 per sack : cauliflowers, large heads 6 - to 7 6 per sack : brussels sprouts 4Jd per lb, carrots 4, 6 per cental, garlic 21<1 per _lb. Poultry, hens 3 ’6, cockerels 4 '6 to 5 6 per pair, ducks 4 6 to 4/9 per pair, turkey hens up to BJd per lb, gobblers Pid per lb to lOld live weight, pigs, 140’s to IfeO’s 7d perib ; porkers 6?,d per lb.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 166, 27 June 1916, Page 7
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342COMMERCIAL. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 166, 27 June 1916, Page 7
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