CHRISTMAS MARKETS.
YESTERDAY’S PRICES. The Dominion Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, reports receiving a fair yarding of pigs at its sale yesterday, prices remaining firm on late rates. Poultry was in exceptionally heavy supply, but a keen demand prevailed and a total clearance was made at satisfactory prices. Emit and produce also were in heavy supply. Prices:— Pigs.—Wcaners, from IPr; to '2ls; slips, from 22s to 265; stores, from 29s to 365; heavy porkers, from 45s to 525; light, from 37s 6d to 425. Poultry.—Heavy hens, from 8s to 10s per pair; best White Leghorn hens, from 5s to 6s per pair; light hens, from 4s to 5s per pair; heavy cockerels, from 6s 6d to 8s per pair; lighter, from 2s to 5s per pair; ducks, from Eg to 7s per pair; geese, from 8s to 12s per pair; turkey gobblers, from 14s to 25s each; turkey' honk, front 10s to 15s each; roosters, front 4s to 5s per pair. Produce. —Apples: Nelson Tastnas, from 10s 6d to 16s per case; Sturmcrs, from 9s to 12s per case; peaches, from 4s to 12s per case; plums, dessert, from 7s to 12s per case; cooking plums, from 3s‘to 5s per case; tomatoes, hothouse, from 9d to Is 4d per pound: strawberries, front Is 6d to 2s per pound; cucumbers, front 6s to 9s per half-case; black currants, ...from 7s to 10s per case; cherries, from 7s to 15s 6d per ease,; apricots, from 5s to 9s per quarter case; peas, from 2d to 6d per pound; French beans, from 6d to 8d per pound; cauliflowers, from 9s to 15s per case; cabbages, from >ls 6d to 3s per case; lettuce, from 2s to 4s per case; carrots, from 2s to 4s per dozen bunches; turnips, from 2s to 2s 6d per dozen; beetroot, from 2s to 4s per dozen; potatoes, from 9s to 12s per cwt; marrows, from 10s to 12s pier case; rhubarb,, front 2s 6d to 3s 6d per dozen.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 12
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332CHRISTMAS MARKETS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 12
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