LATE COMMERCIAL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 6 January 1928, Page 5

LATE COMMERCIAL

VICTORIAN MARKETS. (Received 6, 10.25 a.m.) Melbourne, Jan. 6. Wheat is quiet at 5/4f; flour £l2 10/- to £l3 10/-: bran £6 10/-; pollard £7 10/-; oats, nulling, 4/3 to 4/5; feed 4/- to 4/1; barley, English, 5/6, Cape 4/6; potatoes £4 10/- to £5; 0ni0:.., £4 10/-. BRADFORD MARKET. (Received 6, 1.20 p.m.) London, Jan. 5. The Bradford market shows a good tone following strong re-opemng of Australian sales and fair business is passing. Quotations: Sixty-fours, 50d; six--296; forty-sixes, 24d; forties, 224 d. 29d; forty-sixexs, 24d; forties, 22|d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from London dated January 4 (last week’s quotations tn parenthesis):—Butter; N.Z. 162/- to 164/- (160/- to 162/-). Market dull with downward tendency. Cheese: 94/- to 95/- (91/- to 93-). Frozen meat: Lamb 9Jd (9jd); mutton, whether and maiden ewe light 6fd (6d); same, heavy 5 3-8 d (sid) : ewe, light 54d (44d); same, heavy 4 7-8 d (4JI. hair demand. WELLINGTON MABKW BEPORT. Market Gardeners Limited, Wellington, submit values of fruit and vegetables sold at their sales during the week as follows:— Heavy supplies with fair values. Fruit.—Apples, new season’■ cookers, 8s 6d to 10s 6d; cherries, local, 22s to 235; plums, Burbank, 6s 6d to 9s; peaches, 4s 6d to Ils 6d; raspberries 5s to 7s 6d; black currants, 9s fid; strawberries. Is 4d to la 9d; tomatoes, Hutt. 4d to is lb; tomatoes, Nelson, 7s to 16s; apricots, 6s 6d to 15s 6d; logan berries, 8d to Is chip. Vegetables.—Potatoes local, 8s 6d to 18s /wt.j potatoes J’ukekohe, 13s to 18s cwt.: onjons, Canadian, 14s to 16s crate; peas, 4s to 8s 6d per sack; cabbage, la to 3s case; cabbage, 3s to 4s sack; earrots, fid to Is per bunch; carrots, 6s 6d to Ils sack; parsnips, 4d to Is per bunch; cucumbers. 3d to 5a Bd dozen; lettuce, Is to 3s case; spinach 3s to 4s 6d per case; beetroot, 2<l to 6d bunch; cauliflower, 2s to 6s sack; marrows, 12s to 16s case; French beans 4d to 8)d lb; butter beans, 4d to 8)d lb; rhubarb, 6s to 10s dozen.