TALLOW, HEMP AND FRUIT

Northern Advocate, 4 September 1935, Page 10

TALLOW, HEMP AND FRUIT

LONDON VALUES. -The New Zealand Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated August 31, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand: Tallow. —The market continues quiet; values nominally unchanged. Hemp.—Manila: The market is very firm, owing to a good demand from Japan and America. K grade for October-December shipment sold at £l7 10/. Sisal; The market is firmer. September-November shipment is quoted by buyers at £lB 5/. Fruit.—Stocks cleared at late rates. Apples; Prices • during last season showed a definite improvement on 1934, but the general average was affected by the increased percentage of larger sizes due to short crops. Quality and condition were maintained. Pears have not done so well, principally owing to over-supply. Peas.—Maples: The market is very quiet. A grade, Tasmanian, for Aug-ust-September shipment sold at 55/6 No. 1 New Zealand sold at from 55/6 down to 54/9, for August-September shipment at the close. A grade Tasmanian offered at 56/6, New Zealand No. 1 offered at 55/ for August-Sep-tember shipment. New crops of English are selling well on the basis of from 44/ to 48/. THE AUCKLAND MARTS FIRST NEW POTATOES. [Special to “Northern Advocate.”! AUCKLAND, This Day. There was a good inquiry for apples, local grapefruit, oranges and Island tomatoes at the city markets yesterday, but lemons were still hard to get rid of, poor variety being almost unsaleable. Pears sold fairly slowly. On Monday a shipment of Californian onions, Fiji bananas and cucumbers and kumara arrived by the Aorangi. The first new potatoes to arrive from Pukekohe met with a keen demand, as did kumaras and cabbages from Tauranga. Cauliflowers were very scarce, and there was a corresponding increase in values. Local onions sold up to 11/ a sugarbag, while Californian varieties brought up to 21/ a gunny sack’, which is about twice the size of a sugarbag. There was a keen demand for table birds, and the supply of poultry was medium.