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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 January 1917, Page 1

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TW E NEW ZEALAND K.\ KV i'.lt.--00-OPJiRATIVK L> IS I It Of UTISG COMPANY, ljlilTV!.l'. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, Jail. 12. Potatoes are now conning in more freely and there is an excellent demand and satisfactory pi ices are realised. Wlieat is stationary at recent "rates and little business doing. Maize is slow of sale. .Fair business is being clone- in oats and owing to improved demand prices show a, little stronger tendency. Pollard and bran are firm at recent rates. There is a good demand for dressed pork and supples are short. Eggs are scarce and show a s'ight advance in price. Poultry is | 'in good demand and realising fair prices. Vegetables.—Choice samples of green peas and French beans are in excellent demand and on account of the snn.ll quantity offering high rates are ruling Choice cabbage is in good demand at satisfactory prices. Only a few lines of cauliflowers have been offered liind this meets with ready sale. Lettuce a're realising fair prices. Parsnip®, turnips and carrots are enquired for and supplies meet ready sale. Spring onions are selling well and there is an excellet demand for beetroot. Fruit.—Large shipments of fruit are arriving daily and the demand is good for choice lines. Plums however, are selling at low rates. Prices for raspberries and black currants show a distinct improvement. Nelson and loca.l hothouse grown tomatoes are now coming freely and values are lower. Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 7s bushel. Pollard.— £7 lbs per ton. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; specMaize.—ss 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—£l4 per ton. Prime New Potatoes.—£ls per ton. Medium £11 pea- ton. Turnips.—"White, 2s fid per sack. •Cabbage.—Choice 5s to6s;medium 4s per sack. Maize (is lOd per bushel Onions.—£ls per ton. Beetroot.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2Jd per lb Broad beans.— 5s to 7s part sack. Carrots.—Best 9s. Leeks—ls 3d per- bundle. Lettuce.—2s to 3s per case, i Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.—Bd per hunch. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—ls per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 4d per peck. Hutt Hot House Tomatoees.-—ls (3d per lb. Nelson Tomatoes. —10s to '12s per i-case. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus 6d to 9<J bundle. - Oats.—'Crushed 4s Gd per bushel. Seed Oata, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel.

Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley raeal.—£B 10s per "ton. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10a per ton. TOO's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. MolLasses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per oewt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10a per ton. Quicklime. —In 28th air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5e per 251b bag. Eggs.—-Fresh, Is 6d per dozen. Poultry.— Light Table Hens, ss; Heavy Hens, 6s; Cockerels, 6s; heavy Cockerels, 7s to 8s; Good heavy Ducks 9s; Indian Runners, 7s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb. Superphosphates, JHJ 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is 10d lb. Cauliflower.— 8s to 10b ; medium 6s sack. Onions.—£l4 per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips.—White, 5s per sack. .French. Beans.—2d per lb. Broad Beans 3d per lb. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. (Nectarines.—ss to 6s. Cherry Plums.—2s 6d to 3s 6d per half case. Apricots. 7s to 8s pea- half case. Plums.—Buxbani, 3s to s®. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 7d per dozen. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Apples.—Dessert, Choice Sturmers, 15s case. Peaches.—2s 6d to ss. Black Currants.— 7s to 8s per half case. Black Currants.—7s to 9s per £-case Lemons—l6s per cn*e. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberres.—ls 6d punnet Pears.—Choice Vicars.4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per 4-case. Apricots.—los to 12s i-case, others 5 s to 6s. Dreaaed Pork.—7u's to 90's 6Ja to 7d; 90'e to 100's 6|d to 6sd; btooners dozen. Beeswax—ls 6d por lb. Fungus' 5d to 6d per lb. Walnute—Bd per lb.