WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 196, 19 August 1912, Page 6

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

[Speciajd to Express.] WELLINGTON, Aug 16. The New Zealand Farmers' Coropera^tive Distributing Co., Ltd., report as follows:— *

Potatoes—Prime, £6 10s to £6 15s per ton. Potatoes, seed.—Up-to-Dates, £6; White Beauty of Hebron, £8; Northern Star; £6; Early Puritan, £7; Princess Victoria, £6 15s per ton. Onions.—£lß per ton. Cabbage.—3s to 4s 6d per sack. Carrots;—ss to 6s per sack. Cauliflower—Choice, 10s to 15s per sack. Parsnips.—ss to 6s 6d per sack. Swedes.—2s 6d per cwt^ Turnips—White, 2s to 2s 6d per sack. -

Lettuce—-5s to 7s per case. Pumpkins—7s fid to 10s per sack. Apples—Cooking, Epp's Seedling, I 5s 6d to 6s; others, 6s to 7s 6d perj case. / j Apples.—Dessert, 6s-to 9s per case. Cheese—Best factoi-y mediums 7d. loaf,' 7£d to 8d per Ib. Butter—Separator, lid to ll£d: ' Milled lid; Dairy, 10£ dto lid per lb. I Eggs.—Fresh^ Is per dozen. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 90's, 6£d; 90's to 100's 6Jd; baeoners, s£d tb 6d; \ choppers (heavy), 3d to 3|d; slips, 7d; ; suckers, 7|fd per lb. Honey.—4d to 4£d per lb. Tallow.—Tins, 23s cwt. Peurtry.—Cockerels, 4s 6d to 6s for good birds; table roosters, 4s 6d; table hens, 3s 6d to ss; ducks, 5s 6d to 6s j 6d per pair; turkey gobblers,. lOd per lbj..hens, 9a^pejvlb, live weight. Maize—ss9d per bushel. Wheat.—4s 6d per bushel. Feed Barley-—3s 8d per bushel. Peas.—Partridge, 4s per bushel. Horse Beans.-44s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel. Pollard-A-£7 10s per ton. Bran.—£s 15s to £6 per ton. Chaff .—Oaten sheaf, £4 10s to £5 ; 5s per ton. i Hay.—Prime' eloyer, £4 to £4 lfs per t«n. * j Straw. —£3 5s per ton, ex store. i Oats—Feed, 2s 8d to 2s lOd; Duns, \ 2s lid per bushel. j Oats—Crushed, 3s 3d per bushel. I Seed, Cape Barley—4s per bustiel. j Seed Oats.—Algerians, 3s 8d per bushel; Gartons, Excelsiors, Sparrowbills, Black Rivals, Duns, 3s 6d per i bushel. , f