COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2367, 7 December 1908, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

.PRODUCE MARKETS

Messrs F. S’. Malcolm and Co., auctioneers, Grid-aone Road, report the following prices realised at their weekly sale of produce on Saturday: Pullets Is od, ducklings 2s 2d, hens 2s 3d to 3s. roosters 2s Gd to 2s 9d, butter Od to 10il, eggs Is to Is Id, rhubarb Id, lemons Gd doz, turnips In 9d bag. new onions 2d fib, new potatoes 2d lb. peis Is to Is Id peek, cabbages Is 3d to 3s Gd doz, gooseberries 2-kl to 3d lb, beans Is Gd peck. A sale of furniture was also held, when a fair-sized catalogue was disposed of. Messrs Miller and Craig report the following prices at their produce sales on Saturday:—Hens 2s Id to 2s 4d, roosters Is 2d to 3s, chickens lid to Is 3d. elucks 2s to 2s lid. eggs Is 2d to Is 3d, butter Sd to lid, rhubarb Id bundle, lemons od doz, turnips Is Gd doz bun dies, onions 2d "lb, potatoes lid to 2d lb. peas lid peck, cabbage Is Gd to 2s Gd doz.

HORSE SALES. Messrs "Williams and Kettle, Lt<l., yarded 33 hacks and Harness Horses at their -weekly sale on Saturday. H acks sold from £5 to £lO, with best sorts at £l2. harness Horses from £7 to £l2. A horse offered under instructions from the Court bailiff realised £G.

THE BUTTER MARKET

[Press Association.]

WELLINGTON. Dec. 5. ■'’ Inquiries show that there is no prospect of the local price of butter (top irands) dropping below Is 0-Jd per lb. wholesale, and Is 2d per lb. retail this side of Christmas. ' Butter buyers for Home Have taken tall they could get up to Marcli next, and that at from llid.to llld. The low prices on the London market, therefore, do not affect companies who have made their contracts and so secured themselves, as the great majority Have done. In view 'of this fact suppliers of the local market cannot see their way clear to come below llfd per lb. There is a considerable amount of inferior dairy butter to be had at a< lessor rate, but the New Zealand palate ;s more fastidious than that of the English butter eaters, who do not mind a milled article with a bit of \ “tang” in it.