WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 255, 16 July 1918, Page 8

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

1 Messrs. Laery and Company, Lid., ■■"/Allen; Street, report wholesale prices as . fellow:—Fowls' wheat, prime, 7s. Id. to 7s. 2d. per bushel; feed barley, Rood, (is. !. 4d. per bushel; maize, feed, 7s. to 7s. 2d. per bushel; crushed innize, 7s. Id. per i bushel; oats, feefi, ss. sd. lo ss. 7d. per ; bushel; oats. Dun, ss. Ifltl. to Cs. per bushel; chaff, oatshwf, £9 12s. to XlO ' 10s. per ton, sacks in; nats, Algerian, : , feed, ss. 4d. per bushel; flour, in sacks, ;. £\7 per ton; oatmeal, 25'e, .C2C IDs. per ton; fowls, ss. 6d. to 7s. per pair; ducks, ;. 7s. 6d. to 10s. per pair; geese, 10s. to 11s. . per pair; buttea- (pound pals), Is. 3d. to ;■' Is. ii. per lb.; buUer (prime bulk), Is. '' 3s. to Iβ. 4d. per lb.; egge. fresh, 2s. 3d. 'per dozen; eggs,'preserved, Is. lid. per dozen; turkeys (dead weight), Pd. to Is. ', per lb.; dressed pork, choice, 70's to 30 s, 1 B}d.' to 9d.-per lb.j.M's io lOft's, Bd. to ' 8?d. per lb.; bacon pigs, choice, 7d. to BJ. per lb.; , agricultural salt, 15s. ; per ton; beeswax, 2s. per lb.; bacon : (alHwst factory), sides, Is. 3d. per lb.; : rolls' Is. 3d', per lb.; hams, Is. 3d. per '■ IV- iineeed oil menl, 100's, JM 10s. per i ton; linseed oil nuts, 13s. lid, per cwl.; linseed- oil ground cake, '3s. Cd. per ! cwt.; onions,- JJI6 103. to .£l7 per ton; i, potatoes, 6outhem table,' .68 15s. ■' 575. Cd. pw ton; North Island, choice, S7 to £1 10s. per ton, sacks in; molasses, . in Scwt. casks, «s. each, ensks free; I peed potatoes, Up to Dates, £& per ton; Heading Russets, red, £1 lite, per ton; ' Gamekeepers, £1 30a. per ton: Dakota ; Red, «E9 2s. 6d. per ton, sacks in. ; The destruction- of game, poultry, and ; early lambs T>y hawke. was the subject 1 of comment «t a meeting of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. : It was etated thnfc sparrow hawks, ot which there were large numbers in the South Island, were becoming fairly numerous in the North Island. As they 1 wore : the most destructive kind of hawk, ' -special efforts 6hould l>e made by spoTts- : men and farmers to destroy them. One bird killed now. Raid a member, would be as good ns killing three or four later on. Years ago Mr. John Cirigg, of long- : beach. Canterbury, decided to wage war nn theso pests, and in one season killed 3500, and Eβ many as '1200 in one padi docks. It .was reported that since July ! 1, 1600 beaks hadbeen brought to the 1 office of the Auckland Society, and a re- ! ward of sixpence per beak paid.. Hawks i were very easily trapped and large num- ! could be secured. .' •