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Northern Advocate, 11 July 1925, Page 6

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MART REPORT. Messrs. Thomson, Baglev and Co. report as follows for last week:—Vegetables were forward in quantity and generally the quality was good. The market was glutted with apples, and prices fell accordingly, but mil firm again almost immediately. "We have been shipping Poorman oranges South, where they have realised satisfactory prices, though not so high as last season. Potatoes have taken an expected • rise and are likely tn remain firm. Oats and chaff remain firm and unchanged. A large entry of poultry of good qual ity met an excellent demand. Vegetables. — Cauliflowers (small) 2/ to 3/0 per doz., carrots 1/0 per d.b., carrots (in bulk) 10/ per cwt., cabbage 2/ to 4/ per doz., parsnips 2/0 per do/., beet 3/ per doz., kumeras 10/ per -wt.., pumpkins 11/ per cwt., onions (locr! 1 ) 20/ per cwt., marrows Id lb., swedes 2/0 per half cwt.., pie melon Id per lb., potatoes 10/0 cwt.

Fruit. —Doherty apples, A's f>/6 per bus. ease, B's 4/; Sturmers 10/, cured lemons 1/ per dozen in lots, Poorman oranges 4/0 per bus. case, Winter Cole pears .10/6. Produce. —G. 8.0.5. Blenheim eh aif £12 12/6 per ton, oats 0/2 per bus., maize 8/6, Melbourne onions 26/ per cwt., Southern potatoes 10/6 per cwt. Poultry.—W.L. hens (good) 5/6 per pr., others 3/ to 4/, W.L. cockerels 2/6 and 3/ each, 8.0. hens (good) 6/ per pr., others 4/6 to 5/6, 8.0. cockerels 3/6 and 4/6 each, I.R. ducks 4/6 per pr., drakes 2/ ench.