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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17151, 3 May 1919, Page 7

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WOOL AND SHEEPSKINS.

HIGHER PRICES IN BRITAIN. Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 10.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. At the Liverpool wool sales Merinos and fine crosabreds were 5 per cent, above raw at the London wool sales. Low crossbreed were unchanged, At the London sheepskin sales crossbreds and combing Merinos were 10 per cent, above the prices at the last allocition sale. Ail the Bradford quotations were higher.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET. Business in the fruit and produce mark-is has been fairly good during the week. Choice lines of dessert apples and pears are in good demand and selling well. Tomatoes are much scarcer. Lemons are in short supply. Smajl fruit is nearly finished. Island oranges and bananas have arrived from Rarotonga to a fairly good demand. Potatoes aro in better supply, and prices are easier. Onions are in good demand. Fresh eggs declined owing to large quantities offering. Farmers' butter is short in supply. Poultry there is an excellent demand for good birds.

FIELD PRODUCE. Potatoes, local, prime, £10 ton, medium 7s to 8a cwt; onions, imported. £9 It*; pumpkins, best, up to lis. good 8a to 3.-; kumeras, 2d to lid: Swedes, 5s cwt. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter, farmers', in prints, Is sd; esf?, fresh, 2s Sd, preserved Is to la 3d dozen. FRUIT. Apples, local, coloured, extra superior, dessert, 10s to 10a 6d case, good 8s to 8s 6d, others 6s to 7s, cooking 5s to 6s 6<i; pears, choice, dessert, lis case, others, dessert, 7s to Bs, cooking 5s to 6s: grape-, hothouse, V lOd to 2a lb; tomatoes, hothouse, 46 to 5s 6s case, outdoor 2s to 3s; orange-. Island 15s case; lemons, local, prime, 2i'S case, good 12s to 16s; Capo gooseberries, led lb; Quinces, 7s case; passion fruit, 3s to ■>» case, watermelons. Is to 2.-, walnuts, la 3d lb; peanuts, sid lb.

POULTRY. Hens, 3>i M to 5s 4d each, medium 2a M Jo 33 3d'- tabic roosters, 5s to 7s each, medium 2s 6d to 48; ducks, Sa to 7a 6a each; drakes, Is 6d to 3a 6d each; geese, 4s to -\s fld each; chicks. Is each; turkey gobnler', 9s to lis 6d each; turkey hens, 4s 6d to M each. There ib a good demand for Indian Runner ducks, also prime cockrels.

PROPERTY SALES. Samuel Vaile and Sons, Ltd, report havir.? leaped by auction, on behalf of the C l '? Council, on the Glasgow system, three bup nes« sites on Remuera Road, each 20fl by 100 ft, at £12 10s per annum.