LOCAL PRODUCE PRICES.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 14

LOCAL PRODUCE PRICES.

- Wellington, 3rd Dec. Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., advise current prices" as follows:—

' Wheat, 6s lOd and 7s 4d bushel, sacks in ,for ten-sack lots or over; smaller lots Sd bushel extra. Oats: Machine dressed Algerians seed 5s 9d, Gartons 3s 9d and 4s 3d; crushed oats, 4s 9d; black oats, fe 3d bushel, Backs in. Barley: Cape barfley 5s 3d bushel, Chevalier 4s 9d liushel. Mixed fowl feed: Tikaka brand Ss bushel. Less than 5-sack lots 6s 3d bushel, Backs in. Chick raiser, Tikaka brand, coarße, 200's 32s 6d, 100's 17s 6d, ISO's 10s 6d ba,;. Tikaka brand, fine, 200's , 34s 6d, 100's 18s 6d, 50's 11s frag. Pollard (Aust.), £10 10s, N.Z. £10, [Less than %-ton lots 10s ton extra. Bran J£9 per ton. Peas: Feed peas 5s 6d partridge peas, 5s 9d, 6s bushel, sacks in. fMaize: N.Z. whole 6s 7d, crushed maize 7s; less than 10-sack lots 2d bushel extra. Maizemeal, 8s bushel. Linseed, fcvhola.22s 6d, crushed 25s cwt, sack lots. ;Meals: Farro food £10, barley meal £8 30b^ meatmeal £13, sucrosiue £11 10s, pvheatmeal £12 10s, pigmeal £8 ss, peajmeal £10; less than ton lots 10s extra. fLinseed: Moose brand linseed meal, £17, Tiuts, 15s. Less than %-ton lots, 10s ton exi'tra. ' Salt: Agriculture salt £5 10s, rock ;j£6; less .than ton lots 10s extra. Shell ,*rit: Tikaka brand oyster or pipi, 5 bag 'Jots, 5s bag; lesser quantities 5s 6d bag. "Molasses, in cases, two 561b tins, 10s 6d case; in cask, about sewt, 40s drum. Mutton birds, in kits, salted, lOd per bird; in casks, 300-400 birds, 7d per fcird. Black Leaf 40, 101b tins 555, 21b ijtins 14s 6d, %lb bottles 5s 3d each, loz Jx>ttles 14s 6d dozen. Oaten straw, 4s iJiale. Superphosphates, £4 17s 6d ton, #:o.r. Smart road; smaller quantities ■^through store 7s. Blood bone and manure, jPs 6d cwt, potato 8s 6d, bonedust 8s 6d Jcwt. Cow grass, sack lots 6d lb, smaller jnuahtities 7d lb. Peanuts: Java shelled ipeannts, 4d per lb; Chinese, in shell, 4d jjper lb; less than sack lots %d per lb exjtra. Chaff: Prime Blenheim, £9 per ton; .■emaller- quantities 9s 6d per cwt, sacks in. JCow. chaff, £7 per ton; smaller quantities l''6sL6dßack. Straw chaff, 5s 6d sack. Eggs, jss 3d' to 18.5 d per dozen. Butter, dairy :pats and bulk, Is to Is 2d per lb. Seed potatoes (Canterbury- grown), Commonwealthr£6, Gamekeeper £6, Arran Chief '£6 ton; less than ton lots 10s extra. Table potatoes (Canterbury grown), Dakotaß, ton lots £6; smaller lots 10s ton extra. Pigs, 60's to 90's, 8d to B%d per lb.' Fowls, White Leghorns 5s 6d to 6s 6d l>er pair; Black Orpingtons, 7s 6d to 9s per pair. Turkeys, live or dead, Is Id and •Is per lb. Ducks/ young 10s and 12s, heavy breeds lls to 12s pair.