Commercial News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 1, 17 June 1890, Page 4

Commercial News

" Wellington, June 14 -George Thomas and Co: report pro--duce prices as follows :— ln value and -demand them is no alteration to note "4fince hist week's quotations. A , majority of southern associated milJera have by circular issued the terms upon which they are prepared to do :-jb ) usufess in future, which appear . 'somewhat stringent and one-sided, and we shall be surprised to see them carriedjjito effect. Forinstance, they made not different in the prices and terms as bejvfeen the merchaut and a baker or . retail storekeeper. This, in itself is airabsurd proposal, and will form one the chief factors iD preventing the /new arrangement becoming an entirely . satisfactory or lasting basis of trade. Elour still commands £9 5s to £9 loe .for roller, and £8 15e to £-9 for stone ; process; bran, £3 10s; pollard, £4; -whole fowls' wheat, 2a lOd ; broken, "2b 3d to 2s 6d ; prime heavy oats, 1 s lid; fair to good feed, Is 8d to Is 10£ d; oatmeal, £9 10s.; sheaf chaff, ;7aß to 80s ; straw do, 50s to 555 ; maize, 3s 4d to 3s 5d ; feed barley, :2s 3d; pearl barley, £17; blue peas, 4s; split peas, £14 10s; seed kidney ■potatoes, £4 10s; Derwent table do .£2.158 to £3.; onions, best £5 medium £4 ; fresh eggs, Is 9d ; limed do, Is 3d ; fresh butter, firm at 8d ; salt do, 7d; fowls, 2s 6d ; turkeys, 7s; -ducks, 3s 6d ; geese, ss. Fruit is plentifully supplied. Bananas rule from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; oranges, 4s to 6e lemons, 3a to ss; apples, 4s to 6s; pears, 8s to 10s.