COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17104, 8 September 1917, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times office, Friday evening-. In the absence of offerings there is nothing doing in the local wheat market. Three of the Dunedin mills have had to alose down; two others have sufficient wheat on hand to keep them going for another month or so, and the remaining mill has enough wheat for about two months' milling. One Dunedin mill, however, has & pretty stock of flour on hand.

Fowl wheat has farther firmed in price, and as high as 6s 6d per bushel has been obtained for email quantities. There is very b'ttle on offer.

/Oatmeal is quoted at £21 a ton for 25's; pearl barley, £20 10s ; pollard, £7 10s (fixed by Government); bran, £4 5s (fixed by Government).

There axe few lines of oats offering , from Otago growers. Sales have taken place during the »week at 4s 2£d, ex store, for A Gartons for seed purposes, and also at 4s 3£d for A Gartone, 4s 2£d for B Gartons, and 4s for feed oats, all f.0.b., s.L There is not, however, much doing in the local market. For a 600-sack line in the Gore district 4s Id on trucks was offered from ' Dunedin, but the grower found a higher bidder in the ■>■ The Tarawera, which sailed from I ::> ; this morning, took a few thousand --■'.-< to the North Island, in fulfilment >'■ orders receivod within the. past few v .-„-. A fair quantity of the shipmei' ■■. .u composed of under-grade lines, ix-.i ;.:ch there is a fait inquiry from the . ;i. PRODUCE i.i'ORT. The broken weather has delayed the cutting of chaff in the south, but the market has been supplied with consignments from the north and Otago Central. Good quality is selling at £6 ss, delivered in Dunedin.

Merchants are out of stock of oaten and wheaten straw, no supplies having arrived on the market for some tjme. The quotations are, therefore, more or lees nominal.

Good quality potatoes have been sold during the week at £4 ss, and the market \g firm at this figure.for any freshly-picked lines. Most of the stores are busy picking over sprouted potatoes, and the market is kept well supplied. Canterbury consignments are now lessoning, as fanners are too busy with spring work, and probably present prices do not induce them to g-t their potatoes ready for the market, although it is reported that supplies are still plentiful there. Eggs are plentiful, and bakers haxe now commenced to preserve quantities. < The stocks of tuooi are euffieien' to meet the demt .id.

Milled and dairy butter has advanced Id per lb. , There -was a medium yarding of pige at Bornside on Wednesday—not sufficient for requirements. Best porkers railised up to 9d per lb, others B£d per Ib; beet baooners from 7gd to 3d per lb. Current wholesa.** prices are bs foDow:—

Chaff. —Prime oaten eheaf, £6 to £6 ss; nwdhim to good, Jβ' 10s to £5 10s (sacka extra). Straw. —Oaten, *»"*' Si to £3 Ms; wheaten, £2 10s to £2 15s.

Prime clover hay, £5 20s to_ £5 15s.

Potatoes.—Pγ. aie lines, £4 5s per ton tsafks in); medinm to good are unquotable. Melbourne onione, 20s per owt.

Egge, Is 2-i Butter.—ftLiled bulk, Iβ 4d per lb; dairy • end separator, in Ib packages, to Is 4d. Honey.—Bulk, 6d; 101b tins, 5s 6d; 21b potties, 15e to !*» a dozen; 2lb ijns, 15e. Pigs.—Baocmere. 7£d to 8d . per lb; '. porkers, B£d to 9d. Biioon.— Rolls, local, Is 2d: Christchxrrch, ,' Is 2d • sides, Is Id; hams, Iβ 2d; ham rolls, ■ Iβ 3A FRTJTT ETTORT. Small I=H -only of apples bartefr arrh«od dnrinf? the week. Tliese oame mostly from - 0to?o Central, and realised vsp to per * Ib. The market is quite bare of cooking t " apples; *ny odd lines bring- hisrh prices.. A fee- cases of knots «ad a&m h*oe

arrived from Canterbury 000 l stores. Tho apiples brought from 10s to 12a per case, and the pears up to 4|-d per' lb. Owing to the impossibility of obtaining oitrna fruits from Sydney, consequent on tho strike in Australia, there is a stronger demand for apples. Some 400 to 500 cages of island oranges and 200 cases of American Valencia, oranges arrived during tho week by the T&rawora. The prices realised are given bolow. Cbttliflowers are about tho only vegetable available. Supplies of these are comsnenomg to ease off. Spring onions, lettuce, and radirfx nro now commencing to mate their appearance an the market. Rhubarb is also coming forward. The following are tho current wholesale prioeei— Apples.—Otago Central- Dessert, 3gd to 4|d; cooking, to sd. Cantorbuiry: Lord Wolaeleye, to 10s 6d; dessert, 11s to 12s. Lemons.—Ancklands only available; lls to 14a. Orajiges.—Poorman, for marmalede, 12s to 14s; Island, 14e to 19s, aa landed, 22s 6d repacked; Valencia, 40s. Watatrts, 9id to lO^d. Cucumbers, to 12s par dozen, Rarotoneran tomatoes, to Is 3d per 1«. Cabbages: Good, to 7s 6d per inferior, 2s to Ss per sack. Caulifiowers: Best, IDs to 10s 6d per sack; medium, 8s to 9s; inferior, 2s to 4s. Letuoe, to 2s per doeen. Paisnips, 3a 6d to 4s per cental; sacks, to 7s: oases, to 3s 6d. Carrots, 3s to 4,« per cental; sacks, to 6s. Beetroot, Is 6d per dozen. Spring onions, Is per dozen bunches. Radish, Is per dozen. Swedes, 4e per Back; 2s to 2s 3d for cental bags. Potatoes. —Taieri-grovro, in sack lots, 5s per cwt for choice. MELBOURNE MARKE7TS. Prces Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. MELBOURNE September 7. Barley: Chevalier malting , , 4s 6d to 4s lid: Cape, 3s 2& to 3s 3£d. Oats: Algerian mailing. 2s 6d to 2s 'feed, 2s 3d to 2e Potatoes, £3 15a to £5 ss. Onions, £12 to £12 103. •SβCHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. GPeb United Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, September 7. There is nothing , fresh to report in connection with the grain market. Oats are very scarce. There is a fair amount of oatsbeaf chaff offering, and the demand keeps steady at late rates. The information obtained regarding the potato market is more or less contradictory. Some buyers report that they have secured considerable quantities during the past week —all they required to fill their orders —paying up to £3 5s per ton at country stations. Others stated that growers wero not anxious to sell, and that .supplies were difficult to obtain. The stocks in the country are still plentiful, end in addition to the quantity stored in pits a number of growers in the Ashburton and Canterbury districts have not yet dug their crops. <aScott Bros., produce salesmen and commission agents, report:—Eggs: Market firm; readily placed at Is 2d per dozen. Butter: Scarce; dairy pats, Is Sdi; bulk, milled, Is 4d; separator, Is 5d per N lb. Honey: Slow. Prime clover, sd; 101b tine, 4s 6d*each; sections, 6d. Poultry: Wanted. Cockerels, 5s 6d; hens, 3s 6d; ducks, 5s 6d; Geese, 6s to 7a per pair; gobblers, 10£ d; hens, 9id per lb. Pigs: Brisk demand. Prime baconers, 8d; porkers, overweights 4d to 6d; hams, Iβ 2d; bacon, Is 2d per lb. Potatoes: Prime Up-to-Dates (■wanted), £4 ss; medium to good, £3 10s to £3 15s per ton (ex store, sacks in). Onions: Melbourne, 20s per cwt. Chaff: Scarce. Prim© oaten sheaf. £6 7e 6d; bkek oaten, £6 10s; medium "to good, £5 10s to £6 per ton (sacks extra). Oats: Firm or. Gartons, 4s Id; best feed. 3s lid per bushel (ex store, sacks extra). Wheat: Only small lots offering. Values, 6s 3d to 6s ,6d per bushel (ex store, sticks extra). Straw (wanted): Pressed wheaten, £2 15s; oaten, £3 10a per ton.