WELLINGTON MARKETS
Wellington, October 12.
George Thomas and Co. report; pro duce prices as follows : — An inclination on the part of farmers to quit their stocks of oats has caused a general dullness and decrease of value in this line, which now rule at 2/6 per bushel. The inquiry for potatoes (of really undoubted quality only) from Australia still exists ; there is however, little or no demand for local requirements. Other lines are unaltei- d and we quote— Flour, £8 10/- to £9 15/ ; whole fowls' wheat, 3/4 to 3/5 ; broken do, 3/- ; bran, £3 10/- ; pollard, £3 15/- ; wheatmeal, £9 10/- ; oatmeal, £13 10/- to £14 ; oaten sheaf chaff, £5 ; straw do, £2 15/- to £3 ; maize, 3/- to 3/3 ; feed barley, 3/-; pearl do, £19 10/« ; field peas, 3/9 to 4/- ; split peas, £15 ; old potatoes, £4 to £4 10/- ; new do, l&d per 1b; onions, 3^d to 4d ; cheese, 4^d to s£d ; hams and bacon, 7£d to 8d ; fresh butter, 6d to 7d ; salt do, 4d to 6d; cocksfoot grass seed, 2£d to 3d ; rye, 4/- ; clovers, 8d to lOd. Oranges, 10/- to 14/- ; mandarins, 14/- ; lemons, 12/6 to 13/- ; loquata, 3/6 ; rhubarb, 4/- to 5/- ; eggs, 8d ; fowls, 3/- ducks, 4/- ; turkeys, 7/- ; geese, 6/- per pair.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 50, 15 October 1889, Page 2
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