PRODUCE MARKET

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 19 June 1914, Page 5

PRODUCE MARKET

MR. J. JONES, Auctioneer, Victoria and Lome Streets, Auckland, reports •:— Business this week has been good, and | prices ruled slightly firmer. Poultry were penned in less numbers and prices firmed. Local potatoes, swedes and pumpkins are slow of sale, the market, in fact, is glutted. Butter and eggs are ! steady. Fruit market is firmer. We quote : POULTRY '■+ 1/8 to 2/4; pullets, 3/ to 5/6 ; ducks, 2/ to 3/3; roosters, good 3/6 to 4/7, ordinary 2/6 to 3/ ; geeso, 3/6 to 4/6 ; turkeys, gobblers 8/ to 12/9, hens 3/9 to 5/9. FRUIT A-pples, dessert 5/ to 6/6, cookers 4/6 to 6/9 ; pears, 5s to 8/6, cookers 4s to 6s; lemons, 5s to 6/9. DAIRY PRODUCE Butter, 9cl to 9:Md \ eggs, fresh Is 7d to Is 10(1, preserved Is to Is 2cl ; cheese, 6d to .7d; hams, 9d to 13d; sides, 8d to 9HdFARM PRODUCE Potatoes, Southern £3 to £5 10s, local £2 to £3; onions £3 to £'l 10;; swedes, £1 10s to £2 ; pumpkins, £1 10-; to £3 10s; red carrots, £-3 to £3 10s ; white carrots, y/l; cabbVges, 4s to 6s sack. " Pigs, Ir, to 13j Ui. GTIAiN Maixe, 3.5 lid to 4; «J ; v.-lipat, 'U to 4s 9d ; oats, seed 2s 9d ; Algerian, seed js ;: 7c] ; hv&n. £4 10s; shuvys, £7 s^ ; chaff, £5 10s; barky, 3^ U \ vice meal, £5,