MARKET REPORT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 10

MARKET REPORT.

The Dominion Auctioneering Co., Lid., Palmerston North, report receiving the usual yardings of pigs and poultry at tlieir weekly sale held on Thursday, and to a large attendance of buyers a total clearance was made in all lines. Vegetables were in very heavy supply, prices remaining firm on last week’s rates. They quote as follows: Pigs.—Best weaners, 11s to 13s eacn ; small, 9s to 10s: stores, 20s, 22s to 30s; fight porkers. 35s to 40s; heavy, £2 4s to £2 10s; baconers, £2 13s to £3 11s. Poultry —Best W.L-. hens. 6s to 7s per pair; heavy black hens, 7s to 9s per pair; lighter lien's, 4s to 5s Btl per pair; heavy, cockerels, 8s to 9° per pair; medium, 6s to 7s per pair; pullets, forward. 7s, 7s 6d to 10s each ; medium, 5s to 6s each ; young ducks, 6s to 7s per pair; old ducks, 4s to 5s per pair, geese, 2s 9d to 3s 6d each. Produce. —Tomatoes, 4s to 6s per half ease; cauliflowers, 6s lo 10a 6d per sack; qabbages, savoy ,5s to 8s per sack ; drumhead. 2s to 7s i«r sake; spinach, 3s 6d to &s 6d per case; lettuce, 3s to 5s 6d per case: swedes, 3s to 4s per sack; peas, 14s to 26s per case; beans, 4d to 7d per lb.; rhubarb, 3s to 6a per dozen ; celery, 3s 6d to 8s 6d per case; carrots, 2s 6d to 33 6d per sugar bag; parsnips, 2s 6d to 4s per sack; pumpkins. 4s to 7s.per sack; marrows, 2s to 5s 3d per sack; potatoes, 5s to 6s per cwt.; onions, 11s per bag.