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Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 66, 18 March 1911, Page 7

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

[Special to Express.]

WELLINGTON, March 16. The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., report as follows:— - Potatoes are in fair demand, with large quantities arriving, i' Southern ■ grown lines are now taking the leading place, and are so far of excellent quality. Onions are unchanged. Vegetables are all in good demand, excepting swedes, and carrots. Mushrooms sell readily when packed" in small boxes. Fruit. — Dessert apples, good where quality is right; cookers, good demand; pears, keen sales; peaches, good for best sorts; plums would realise high figures; quinces have fallen, green lines, being in- poor demand. Potatoes-i-Prime, £4 to £5 per to». •. ■ •

Onions—Globes, £4 10s to £5 per ton. ' Cabbage—2s 6d to 3s per sack. ' Green Peas—Hutt, Is per peck. , French Beans—2sd per lb. Carrots—2s 6d per sack. Swedes—2s per sack. Cauliflower—6s to 7s per sack. Marrows—ls 6d to Is 9d per sack. Turnips—Whiiio, 4d to 6d dozen. Lettuce^ —Is per case. Pumpkins—ss to 6s per sack. Mushrooms—2d to 3d per Jb. Rhubarb—ls to Is 6d per dozen. Blackberries—3d per lb. Cucumbers—2s 6d per J-case. Peaches—2s to 4s |-case. Plums—4s to 6s>per $-case.; Dessert Apples—ss 6d to 8s per case. , ' "

Cooking Apples^—3s 6d to 4s per case. Tomatoes—ls 6d to 2s per half-ease* Pears—Dessert, 7s to 9s; cookers, 5s to 6s per case. Grapes-^Bd to 9d per lb. ' Quinces —3s 6d per case. Butter—Separator, 9Jd to lOd; I dairy1, 9d to 9}d per lb. Cheese—Best factory mediums, s|d per lb; loaf, 7d per lb. • Eggs—Fresh, Is 6d per dozen. Bacon —Factory sides 7d, rolls 9d, hams, 9jd per lb. Hotey—3£d per lb. Slow of sale. Beeswax—^ls 6d per lb. Fungus—4£d per lb. Ws 1 nuts—6d por lb. Tallow—Tins, 26s cwt. Poultry—^Cockerels, 5s 6d for good birds; small, 3s; table roosters, ss; table hens, 3s to 3s 6d; ducks, 4s to 5s per pair; turkey gobblers, lOd per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Poor demand. Maize—3s 6d per bushel. Wheat-^s per bushel. Barley (feed)^-3s per bushel. Barley, Cape—3s '8d per bushel. Dun Peas—4s per bushel. Pollard—£7 p6r ton; £6 15s in ton lots.

Oat Pollard—2s 6d sack of about 901b.

Bran—£s per ton. > ■ s Chaff—Oaten sEeaf, £5 5s per ton. Hay—Prime, £3 10s to £4 per ton Straw—Wheaten, £2 7is 6d per ton: Oats—Feed, 3s per bushel. Oats—Seed, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns,' Black Tartars, 3s 3d; Algerians, 3s 6d per bushel. ' Oats—Crushed, 3s 3d per bushel.