EXPORT OF HONEY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 7

EXPORT OF HONEY

SEASON'S FIRST PAY-OUT

AVOIDING STORAGE CHARGES

The first pay-out for tho 1933 honey season, on the basis of 3<l per lb. for top white special, and with a minimum of not less than 2d per lb. to any exporter, is announced by Mr. J. R. Butland, chairman of the New Zealand Honey Export Control Board. "The board is in a position to advise that it has been ablo to dispose of a third of the total export of approximately 300 tons for the season within three months after arrival of the first consignment in England," said Mr. Butland. "Although it is a little soon to make any definite forecast as to ultimate final returns, we feel that unless any unexpected events disturb the market we shall be able, after allowing for all transhipping, selling costs am! levy for the purchase of Imperial Bee brand, as well as making a reserve for advertising, to return to the producers on the basis of 4sd to 5d per lb. for top white special. It will interest producers to know that foreign honey lias recently been offering on the London market at as low as 20s per cwt. The return to producers on this basis must be loss than Id per lb. "It is anticipated that the New Zealand Honey Producers' Association's stocks will be cleared before next season's export reaches England, enabling the board to carry out its policy of putting as much of the crop as possible through the depot and securing a premium which will help the average price of the balance to be sold in bulk.

"The policy is that each season's honey must under normal circumstances be disposed of in the season of export, so that 110 storage and interest charges arc allowed to accrue, and that 110 advertising expenditure shall bo incurred in excess of reserves actually in hand, or allocations of a fixed rate per lb., made only after the exports for the season have been ascertained. This will avoid carrying any liability over from one season to another and should enable the accounts each year to be closed and final payments made to producers at the end of the year in which their honey is exported.

"We feel that we must remind producers of the necessity of offering only the best classes of honey 011 the English market if they are to retain ihe confi-, deuce that has, at considerable expense, been built into Imi)erial Bee brand."

THE CITY MARKETS

EGGS AGAIN CHEAPER VEGETABLES PLENTIFUL There were heavy supplies of new potatoes, cabbages, preen peas and rhubarb at the City Markets yesterday, and most lines met with a fair demand. There also were good supplies of beans, asparagus, cucumbers, carrots, parsnips and beet. Fruit, generally was slow of sale, the only line to meet with a ready demand being strawberries, which were in rather short supply, and realised prices approximately equal to last week. A new shipment of Californian grapes realised fair prices, but did not sell freely. There was a' medium sale of poultry, and the demand was fair, prices generally being unchanged from last week. Prices for all grades of hen and duck eggs were again Id a dozen cheaper, first grade hen eggs bringing 9Jd and duck eggs B£d. Farmers' butter sold at to 9d, a reduction of from l£d to 2d on last week's values. Prices were:— FRUIT Apples. Canadian. 20s to 21s: Rome Beauty. Gs to 8s; Delicious, local, 4s to 7s; Hawke's Day. Gs to 8s; Stunners, 7s to 10s; Granny Smith, Gs to 7s; pears. Coles. 8s to 10s fid; Nelis. 10s to 13s; P. Barry, 7s fid to 10s Gd; gooseberries, Gs to 8s Gd; passions. Cs to 13s: strawberries Captain Cook. Is 4d to Is 8d n chip; Marguerites, 10d to Is sd; oranges. South Australian navels, repacks, 1 15s to 245: Islund, repacks,. 17s Gd to 24a; poormnn. 7s to lis; grapefruit, New Zealand, large, 9a to 12s; Californian. 455: tomatoes, hothouse, 5d to Is a lb.; bananas, choice. 24s to 2Gs a case; medium, 19s io 245; No. 2. 17s to 20s; tree tomatoes, new black, 8s to 9s: others. 2s Gd to Gs Gd: lemons, tree ripe, 2s Gd to Gs fid; cured, Gs to 8s; pines. Queensland. lGs to 18s; Fiji, 10s to 10s Gd; grapes, Californian, 2oR; pluniß, Californian, 19s; pomegranates, 14a Gd to 15a Gd; coconuts, 14a a sack. FIELD PRODUCE Potatoes, new, 3s to 5s a bag; swedes. Is to Is Gd a bag; onions. Canadian, 12s to 13s Gd a bag: kumnras, Tnuranga. 4s to 5s Gd a bag; cabbuge, Is to 5s a sack; on benches, Gd to 2s a dozen; cauliflower. 3? to 7s a sack; on benches. Is to 4s Gd a dozen; pumpkins. 8s to 18s Gd a cwt.; cucumbers. 4s to 7s a dozen; carrots. Ski to Is 3d; parsnips, Is to Is Gd; beet, 8d to Is; turnips, (id a dozen; radish, fid a dozen; spring onions, 2d to Gd a bundle; spinach. Gd to Is a dozen: leeks. Id to 3d a bundle; green peas, 3s Gd to Gs Gd a bag; beans. French, 7d to lid a lb.; broad. 2d to 3d' a lb.; marrows, new season's, 3s to Gs a dozen; lettuce. Is to 3s Gd a case; rhubarb, is to 3a a dozen; asparagus, Gd to Is Id a bundle. POULTRY

Cockerels, heavy breeds, prime, 4s Gd to 6s Gd; not prime. 2s Gd up: light, prime, 3s to 4s Gd; not prime, Is Gd up; fat roosters, heavy, prime. Is Gd to 2s: light. Is to Is 6d; fat hens, heavy, 2s Gd to 3s Gd: light. Is Gd to 2»; pullets., heavy, best, 3a to 4s Gd; smaller, 2s up: light, best, 3s to 4s Gd; smaller. 2s up: drakes, young, prime, 3s to 4s; smaller, 2s Gd up; old. Is to Is 9d; ducks, young. Is Gd to 2s; old. Is to Is Gd; cockerel chiekß. heavy breeds, 9d to 2s Cd: light. Id to Is Gd: day-old chicks. Black Orpington, 3d <o "d; Leghorn, 4d to Gd; ducklings, about 4d. DAIRY PRODUCE Hen eggs, first quality. 9}d a d<jzcn: B grade. Sid: C grade. 75d; duck eggs, ?Jd. 7Jd, Gsd; farmers' butter, 7{d to 9d. CANTERBURY MARKETS LESS DEMAND FOR SEEDS [nV TELEGRAPH —Pit ESS ASSOCIATION*] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday The ryegrass market is a little quieter. Export to the United Kingdom continues, but in less volume. Values arc unchanged, good seed being worth 2s 6d a bushel on trucks, with best; quality to 2s 9d. Prices for cocksfoot have improved by a halfpenny a pound, Akaroa being worth 6}d for farmers' dressed and plains ssd. Some business has been done locally for spring sowing. Other classes of seeds are unaltered in price and most of them are firmly held.

The demand in the north for potatoes is now being practically all supplied from local sources, although small consignments of Dakotas are going north to Wellington. There are not many of this variety about. There arc still a few holders' of whites in the country. The fowl wheat market is easier, quotations being 3s 7d a bushel, f.0.b., sacks extra, Lyttelton. MELBOURNE PRODUCE MELBOURNE. Nov. 3 Following are to-day's quotations 011 the Melbourne produce market: Wheat, 2s Bd. Flour, £7 10s. Bran, £4 ]os. Pollard, £O. Oats, 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Barley: English, 2s 6d. Maize, 4s to 4s 3d. Onions: Spanish, quiet but steady at £1 5s to £1 10s. Silvorskins: Easier at £4 10s and occasionally £5.