COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET The fruit poultry and produce market* hufe been brisk during the week, and prices generally firmed at yesterday's sales. Potatoes (tablet show an advance of from 20s to 40s per ton. Onions were in full supply at high prices. Green vegetables were in good supply at advanced prices. Farmers' butter and eggs were in strong demand at an advance on last week's rates. Poultry continues in short supply, and extreme rates are ruling. The (mit market ha' been (airly supplied, principally with appltj .from Nelson and .Hawke's Bay, but owing to the lengthy storage the quality has deteriorated. Canadian supplies promise to be small this season and at a very high landed cost. The first shipment is due in about three weeks. FIELD PRODDCE. Potatoes, prime, table, £11 to £12 10s, medium 10a, wed £9 to £Ui onions, imported, 25s to 30s, local, good, 30s tr. 4.05; chaff, prime, £14 10s to £15 10s. DAIRY PRODDCE. Butter, farmers', in prints. Is fid to Is 5d lb< eggs, fresh, Is id to Is i\i, j FRUIT. i Apples, local, coloured, extra superior, Us to 16s case, good Us to 12s, medium 6s to 10s, lemons, 6s to 6s fid case; oranges. Island 228 6d case, Sydney 16s to 18s, local 10s to 12s. POULTRY. Hena, heavy, table, Is 7d to 5s lid each, fair, 3s to 3s 6d, poor and old, 2s to 2s 6d, table roosters. 6s to <8 3d each, ducks. 3s 6d to ss; geese, 5s 6d to Cs 8d each; clucks. Is to Is 6d each; ducklings, Is 3d to Is 10d each; turkey gobblers, lis to 18a each; turKey hens, 6s 10 lua each. SOUTHERN PRODUCE MARKET. [JT TBIEOBAPn.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CBRIBTCHURCH, Friday. Small odd lots of wheat still continue to com* forward, and if suitable for milling they are readily taken. Oats are also very scarce, ana sales of 1000 bushels of Algerians at ss, and 600 bushels of Gartont at l f 3d at country stations during the week form the only business between growers and merchants recorded Oat sheaf chaff is wanted if of prime quality, and up to £7 10s at a handy station is offered- The shipment of 11,0(10 sacks to Napier by a collier temporarily available has relieved the congestion of supplies somewhat, and a further shipment may bo arranged by the sarna steamer The potato market has, shown •. little improvement, no doubt owing to the absorption of the Australian supplies. There ate a few more inquiries, and some sales have been made Buyers are now offering £8 5s to £8 10s at country stations, but there era not many offering, as growers are holding pretty firmly There is pot much inquiry for main crop aeed potatoes, and they are worth from £1 8a to £6 10s, according to variety, at country stations. A fair demand for seeds for spring sowing is still reported. Turnip seed, especially Imperial Green Globe, is rather scarce.

PRODUCE IN MELBOURNE. A. and N.Z. MELBOURNE, Sept. 27. Barley; Malting, 6a to 6s 6d, Cape, is to 4s 3d. Oats: Algerian, muling, : 's M to 3; 10d; feed, 3b 7d to 3s W. potatoes, £3 15s to £4>lss. Onions. £27, HIDE MARKET. Messrs, G. \V, Binney and Sons report that the following prices were realised at their sale on Tuesday. ~ Hides: Beat cow (ltd to 9(d, medium B}d to Od, scored 7d to Bd, cut 6)d to 7(d, damaged Sid to 6d; ox, extra heavy, 12d to 12} d, heavy lid to Hid, medium 10jd to lUid. light 03d to lOd. cut 8d to Sid, damaged 6id to 7d; yearling, 9d to Sid, cut' 7id to Bd, damaged Sid to 6d; calf, good 13|d to 14d. medium 12d to 124 d. cut 9d to Did; horse. 9s to 10s, medi'.iro 8s to 8s 6d, small 5s Cd to 6s. cut 4s to 4s fid. Tallow: Casks, best, 35s pet cwt, medium 33s 6d to 84a. ordinary 33s 6d; tins, best, 335, ordinary 30s, dreggy and burnt 275. Bonos; Good, dry, £7 10s to £8 pel ton. " ' | \' ■ " MANAWATU STOCK BALE& The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Ltd., reports: — At Palmeraton on Thursday we had a small yarding of both sheep and cattle. The attendance was small and stock sold at late rates:—tat and forward ewes, 33a Ids- hog gets, 21s to 25s 3d; b.f. hoggets, 12a; cows and calves, £6 14s to £11, springing cows, £9; forward cows, £7 10s to £8 6s; store cows, £4 2s Cd; small wearier heifers, 19s to 29». fair yearling heifers. £4 lis to £5 4s 6d. At Feilding on Friday we had a lair yarding of both abecp and cattle. Several lmcß of hoggets failed to make'vendors' reserves Fair hoggets, 225; Ist owes, 32s lOd, yearling heifers, £3 7s, £4 ?s 6d, email yeaning steers, £3 17s 6d, store cows, £5 ss; forward cows, £7, £9; three.year steers, £18; springing heifers (good), £14, £14 15s, £16 10s, £17 15s, £18 12s 6d. • On Thursday we ..«''j| & dispersal sale of pedigree Frisian -v? e on account of Mr Robert Gilmour, T». -'*huna. There was a good attendance oi buyers, and. although (he catllo were so* vh»l low in condition, the sale proved most satisfactory, with the exception of bulls, which failed to sell: Pedigree cows sold from 26gns to 76gns. averaging 45gns;. unsound pedigree cows, lOgns. 12gns, ,16gns, I7gns, 22gna, and 28gns; two-year pedigree heifers in calf, 39gns to 71gns. pedigree yearling, heifers, 16gns to Mens; 9 yearlings averaging, 28gn8; pedigree calves, averaging lagns; grade cows in milk. £10 to £16 10s; yearling grade heifer. £7.