MARKET REPORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 127, 30 April 1937, Page 12

MARKET REPORT.

The Dominion Auctioneering Company report as follows:—Thcro have been good supplies of fruit and vegetables offering during the week and the prices have shown a rising tendency. Vegetables wore in good supply and prices were considerably firmer than the provious week, with cauliflowers showing a decided improvement. Poultry was again in demand and a total clearance was mado at prices satisfactory to the vendors. A good yarding of pigs came forward, porkers and good weaners selling well, but backward wcaners were hard to dispose of. Realisations wero as follows: — Produce.—Tomatoes, best, 4s 6d to 7s per case; quinces, 17s to 19s per case. Pears: Winter Coles, 10s to 12s 6d per J-bushel; cooking pears, 6s to 7s 6d per case. Apples: Delicious, best, 6s to 7s 6d per bushel; others, 4s to 5s fed; Jonathans, 5s to 63 per bushel; Ballarats, 6s to 8s per bushel; Sturmers, 6s to 7s per bushel. Grapes, hothouse, 2s to 2s 4d per lb; lemons, best, 15s to 17s 6d per case; others, 10s to 14s; cape gooseberries, fs to 9s per case; parsnips, 5s to Os 9d per bag; rhubarb, 4s to 5s 6d per dozen; cauliflower, best, 6s to 10s per sack; seconds, 3s to 5s por sack; cabbage, 4s to 5s per sack; seconds, Is 6d to 3s por sack; water melons, 11s 6d per case; spinach, 3s to 4s 8d per case; pumpkins, 6s 6d to 8.3 per bag; potatoes, £7 to £8 per ton; onions, 8s 6d to 9s 6d per cental; marrows, 2s 6d to 4s per case; lettuce, 6s to 12s 6d per case; kuuiaras, 7s to 9s per sugar bag; peas, best, 12s to 17s per cental; beans, 4d to 6£d per lb; cucumbers, 143 to 18s 6d per case; carrots, le to Is 6d por dozen; celery, 12s to 14s per case; seconds, 8s to 10s per. case; beetroot, 6d to Is per dozen; jam melons, 9s to 10s per sack. Poultry.—Cockerels, heavy breeds, 13 2d to 9s per pair; light breeds, 5s 6d to 7s 6d per pair; fat roosters, 5s to 73 6d per pair; light roosters, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per pair; fat hens, 5s to 7s per pair; light hens, 3s to 4s 8d per pair; pullets, best, 6s to 7s 8d each; medium, 4s to 5e each; backward, 3s to 3s 8d each; drakes, young, 6s to 8s per pair; old, 4s 6d to 5s per. pair; ducks, 5s 6d to 7s per pair; old, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per pair. Pigs,—AVcaners, best, 10s 6d to 14s; medium 7s to 10s; small and backward, 4s to 6s 6d; slips, 9s 6d to 16s; stores, 9s 6d to 18s; light porkers, 26a to 32s fed; good porkers, to 465.