MONETARY & COMMERCIAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 26 September 1908, Page 2

MONETARY & COMMERCIAL

WELLINGTON FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKETS. (Special to "Mail.") The Farmers' Distributing Co-opera-ti-» Company, Wellington, reports as follows on the Wellington fruit and produce market under dato 23rd inst. :— \\laize, Ss a bushel. Wheatr— Whole fowl 5s a bushel. Barley— Cape seed 4s 6d a bushel. Oats, 3s to 3s 2r a bushel ; Duns 2s 9d ."> bushel; crushed .'s 4d a bushel; seed— Duns, Sparrowbills, Gartons 3s 3d, Algerians 4s 4d a bushel Peas— Prussian Blue seed 6s 9d a bushel. Maize, crushed 5s 4d a bushel. Horse beans, seed, 5s a bushel. Hay— Prim© £5 10s a ton. Straw, £3 3s to £3 10s a ton. Bran, £6 to £6 10s a ton. Pollard, £8 10s a ton. Prime oaten sheaf chaff, £5 to fco Potatoes— Table £5 10s a ton; seed, specially selected Up-to-Dates, Canterbury, £6 10s, Derwente £5 10s, Victoria £5, a ton. Onions— Melbourne £15 a ton. Butter— Separator lid, milled lua, dairy pats lOd to 11 a Ib. Eggs, fresh, Is a dozen. Honey, 60's 44d a lb. Ryeorass, perennial, 6s 6d a bushel. Walnuts, 4Ad to 5d a lb. Porkers-??* to 90's 6*d, 90's to iOOs sid, baconers sd, heavy pigs 3{d to 4d a lb Cabbage, 4s 6d to 7s 6d a sackCauliflower, 4s to 6s a sack . Carrots, table 4s 6d a sack; horse ts 6d a sack. | Swedes, 2s 6d a Back. Green peas, 2s 3d a peck. Rhubarb 10s to 12s a doz. | Apples— Dessert 13s 6d a case; cook- { ers 12s a case. , ; Poultrv— Table roosters 4s to 4s eel. cockerels' 5* to fs 6d. table hens 4? 6c i to 6e 6d. ducks 7s 6d to Bs, peese 7s 6d —all at a pair. Turkey gobblers lid, hens lOd— live weight.