Wellington Markets
♦- •— George Thomas and Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows : — The firmness in oats is well maintained, and until the opening of the new season we see no reason why present quotations should change. Fowls' wheat is very plentiful, and values are inclined to slightly recede. Onions are exceedingly plentiful, and potatoes nre coming forward very freely. We quote prime short oats, 2s 2d to 2s 3d; long feed, 2s ; oaten sheaf chaff, 80s to 85s ; roller flour, £9 10s ; stone process, £8 10s ; whole fowls' wheat, 2s 2d to 2s 4d ; rye grass seed, farmers', 3s; inacbiue dressed, 8s 6d to 8s 9d ; cocksfoot, 8d to Ski per 1b ; onions, £5 ; potatoes, 60s to 90s per ton for both Derwent and kidneys; prime cheese, 5d lb ; Akaroa, 4Jd ; best quality hams and bacon, 74d, scarce ; fresh butter, dull at 8d to 9d; salt do., 8d; eggs, plentiful at Is doz. The enquiry for poultry is dull at 3s per pair for fowls, 3s 6d ducks, 5s geese, and 7s turkeys. Fair quantities of fruit have been placed at remunerative prices ; plums, from 5s to 7s ; pears, 4s to 7s ; peaches, 6s ; apricots, 6s to 7s ; all in half cases. Lemons, passion fruit, and apples are selling at very low rates.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 108, 2 March 1893, Page 2
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213Wellington Markets Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 108, 2 March 1893, Page 2
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