The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-03-10
TERRET0RIA[
Market IS !
THRIVING
Trade Growing and Both Pro
ducers and Customers Seem
Pleased With Work; Poha,
Strawberries, Fresh Eggs, Corn
and Sweet Potatoes Expected
in Shipments This Morning.
{ From saturday Advertiser.)

Tho Territorial Marketing Division
has its new headquarters at the Red
Front store on the northwest corner Of
Nuuanu and Queen streets in tho Bre-
nigs Block. A. t. Longley, the market
ing superintendent, yesterday said that
shipments Of strawberries, pOha, fresh
eggs, corn and sweet potatoes will ar
rive this morning. Trade is growing
and everybody seems pleased, custom.
ers and producers alike. This is a
Wholesale market, not retail one.
The offerings Of the week have been:
Oranges and lines, from Kaupo, Maui
Oranges, stock low and in demand;
lines, should be larger and ripper, good
fruit active. 49,.
Onions for Coast.
onions-The first new crop, Hawaii.
en-, from this island, IN crates, Al, well
graded and cured; 30 cases were
shipped to San Francisco on last Homo
lnlan to test the Coast market. III
Green Onions-The Hawaiian native
variety, the kind that go with poi and
salt salmon, from Kaupo, Maui.
Curly Lettuce From Makiki Heights,
headed like cabbages.
Cabbages-A enrload lot from Wahia-
wa last week broke the market to one
cent per pound. Stock diminishing and
in better demand, up TO IA cents.
Eggs-Slow, stock heavy, fresh sell.
ing at thirty-six cents, from Kona and
Kap, Hawaii, Kauai and Maui. Recent
heavy importations from China and ia.
pan have depressed sales and prices in
case lots TO twenty TO twenty-five cents
for storage. Island eggs should be bet
ter graded and packed. Producers
should ship in standard thirty dozer
cases and grade to color and size. d.
Green Corn--Good to fair, from Ko
hala and Kula. y ygn atsa.a'.a.. a.
Beans [dry)-From Kula, in good de
mand. Trial shipments were sent Il
California recently. @'n.,
Sweet Potatoes Moving well, prieei
falling or, will be more plentiful later
Broilers In Demand. 49,.
Chickens ~ Old hens and roosteri
move slowly, selling fairly well, stool
low. The market Is bare of broiler
and young chickens which are in stronI
demand. ..tl
Turkeys Supply short, moving well
Island Butter-From Paumalu, Oahu
ready sale AT fifty cents, active, suppl,
short. The division has no facilitie
for storing butter and would prefer no
to handle II. . -..
Chareoal-Dead; .over.supply, abou
500 bags on hand. Mono should b.
shipped until this lot works of.
| Needs Of Market. ...
The market wants carrots, strin,
beans, turnips, lima beans in the pod
dry or green; Lfmas, green, must no
be shipped shelled as they heat in tran
sit No island new potatoes have beel
in market for one,month, and are in &C
tive demand. a ~
Pohas are in demand Mt eleven cents
Few offerings of Museovy ducks woul
sell in large volume. No supply OF
hand! Duck eggs also in heavy demand
k The marketing division will hnndl
fresh pineapples in. small lots, as som
inquiry is developing. viii shortl
ship trial lots to San Francisco.
! Anyone who has breeding stock -
poultry turkeys, ducks or pigs. will con
fer favor by notifying the superinteu
dent, as many inquiries have been rC
eeived. .a
4 A large supply of fresh garden vegc
table and field, seeds of standard va
rieties well adapted to Island condition
are expected to arrive at an early. dat
from the East. ..}.
DE-. Il. v. Wilcox, director Of the es
pertinent station, is trying to arrange t
have man on the Coast TO receiv
and look after all shipments of Ha
waitan produce. This is a necessary az
lunet of the marketing work, and wi
undoubtedly save many dollars for /.
land farmers in the proper bandlin
and marketing of shipments.
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