COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15730, 3 October 1914, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE. LOCAL MARKET REVIEWED. Verv little improvement has taken place in the fruit and produce markets, and business has again been dull. As this is-the "off season" in local fruit, only imported lines from Australia and Tasmania are being offered, and all shipments received have been readily cleared with tho exception of small stocks on hand of Vancouver apples. The varieties of the first Canadian shipments were disappointing, and the fruit in most instances was very indifferent in colour. The potato market is overstocked, and prices are falling. Consignment business is mostly being dealt with, local prices being less than f.o.b. rates; there is no prospect of values advancing. Only a nominal demand now exists for seed. New potatoes are increasing in quantity, and prime samples are selling well. (Shippers should not forget to grade them, i Onions are in short supply, and prime samples are selling at 'high rates. Vegetables, such as cabbages, cauliflowers, and pumpkins, are in ready demand—the latter especially so. Fanners' butter is selling well, and a slight advance in fresh eggs is noted. Poultry is in good demand, and best conditioned birds are fetching big values. Voting pigs are selling exceptionally well. FIELD PRODUCE. Potatoes; Prime Southern. 70s per ton; j medium, 3s per cwt. New potatoes: first | Brad*. 2i<\ to 3d per lb: second grade, lid ' to ljd per lb. Onions: Local. ISs to 20s per cwt: imported 'Frisco's, 21s per cwt. Pumpkins, .Da per cwt. DAIRY PRODUCE Butter: Farmers', in prints, lid to Is per lb; prime farmers', bulk, lOd. Eggs: Fresc, lid to Hid per dozen. FRUIT. ' Apples: Canadi-ns, lis to 15s; Hobarts, 9s, op*, medium, 10s Cd to lis Pears, 16s. Grapes: Hothouse, per lb. 2s 3d. Tomatoes: Hothouse, per lb, Is Oranges: Local, case. j 10s to 12s; Island, case, sound, 208. i gydney, caso, 13s to lis. Mandarins i i Sydney, case, best, 235; good. 17s 6d Ito 19s. Lemons: Local, prime, case, 8s to 9s; local, rough and coarse, case. 3s 6d to 4s. C&po gooseberries, per lb, ojd. Passion fruit, per case. 8a to Ss Wainats, per lb. Bd. Peanuts, per lb, 21 d to 3d. Bananas, per lb. 2d. Pines, crate, lis- Cocoanuts, seek, 9s. POULTRY. Hens, each: Good, 2» 8d to 3s 6d; poor. 2s to 2s 6d Table roosters, each, up to 4s ii" J cockerels, 2* to 3s .id. Duoks. each, Is 9d to 2s 3d; young birds three parts grown UP to 3s 6d each. Geese, each, 3s 9d to 4s Chicks each, 3d to Is. Ducklings, each. 6d to Is Id turkey- gobblers, each. 6s to 12s. Turkey hens, each, 3s 9d to 63. Young pigs each. 12s 3d to 13s 3d. B V * '

THE WHEAT MARKET. BUYERS HOLDING OFF. By Telegraph—Press Association— London, October 1. The American visible wheat supply is 84,518.000 quarters. ' " The wheat market is quiet, buyers holding off. For Australian afloat, *45s 6d is offered.

AUSTRALIAN PROVISIONS. By Telegraph— Association—Copyright Perth, October 2. The Government has fixed the price of wheat at 46 6d per bushel. • Melbourne, October 2. The official price of wheat is 4s 9d and flour £10 ip 8 . Oats are quoted at 2s lid to 3s lid ; barley, English 3s 6d to 4s 3d, Cape 3s I£J : maize, 3s lid bran, ib 15s; pollard, £7 potatoes, up to £5 Os; onions, up to £11 Kb.

SOUTHERN i PRODUCE MARKETS. [BY telegraph.—PßESS association ] CHWSTCHrjBcii, Friday. Since the fixing of the price of wheat »nd flour by the Government, business to wheat is at a complete standstill ihere are inquiries from outside millers for wheat at 4s 9d, but merchants can only supply at a loss on recent purchases out of their own stocks, and holders of wheat in the country are not selling. Oats are weaker in the absence of shipping freight to the United Kingdom, and there is no demand for chaff. The potato market continues to weaken and 27s 6d to 3Us are the best prices at country stations.

HAMILTON STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company. Ltd., reP. ort ir"' W .'9 hel<l our usual tri-wcekly sale in the Hamilton yards on Thursday, October 1, "hen we yarded 2000 -sheep and 250 head of cattle. There was a good attendance of buyers, and cattle again showed an advance in prices, were being a good demand for all classes. Sheep were not quite as firm as previous sales We quote: Shorn fat wethers, small, 20s 6d; prime fat wethers, 25s- fat ewes, 22s to 265; best woolly hoggets, 17s 9d; prime hosgetH 16s; cull hoggets, 13s; cull ewes and lambs, IGs to 20s; prime fat cows, heavy-weights. £8 5s to £9 9g: mediumSf'?? 18 ! £ L\ sb \° £1 , 17fl M ; M "offers. 4.5 los to £6 os; forward empty cows, £& Is to £<3: Bmall and poor empty cows, £3 15 3 to £4 10s; cows and calves, £5 5s to £6 15 3 . good yearling steers, £3 to £3 10s; yearling heifers, from £2 15s to £3 83; heavy bulls £7 7s to £9 9s: best dairy cows, £7 to £8 10s; best dairy heifers, close to profit. £6 IBs to £8 ss; cull cows and small heifers, £4 10s to £5 ss.