PRODUCE MARKET

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 February 1915, Page 3

PRODUCE MARKET

Mr. J. JONES, Auctioneer, Victoria and Lome Streets, Auckland, reports :— Business on the local market has this week been very busy, but values have in most lines been low. Fruit has arrived in heavy supply and prices have fallen, The poultry market is glutted with poor conditioned birds. P6tatoes, eggs, and butter are much firmer. POULTRY Hens, 1/6 to 2/2, good 1/4 to 1/6, others Is to. 1/3.; roosters, prime' 64 to 4s 9d, good 3s to 3s 3d, cockrells 1/3 to 2s ; ducks, young 1/3 to 2/3, old Is to, 1/3 ; geese, to 3./6 ; turkeys gobblers 6/6 tq 10./, hens 3/6; to 4/fj! figs, 7s to 13/9, FARM PRODUCE Potatoes, prime, 5/10 to 7s, good ssto 6s, poor 3s to 4s; onions, 9s 6d to lis 6d; wedes, £2 15s to £3 15s. Vegetables are scarce. ViAi-ftY- PRODUCE %gs fresh 1/3 to 1/4, butter 9d to lO^d, bacon 9d to lOd, cheese 6d to Bd, honey 3s to 5/, bulk honey 2d to 3^d. GRALN, JvU.ifco s : s to 5/4, wheat 6/9 to Bs. v oats 4/6, bran £8, sharps £8 lOs-" chaff, Southern 8s to Ss 64 •, vy& oQrn. 5s 9d ; barley 5s (yl, FRUIT Apples, dessert 4s to 6s, good 3/6 to to ss, cookers 3/6 to 4/6; plums, Burbanks is to 2/, Ogans Is to 1/5 peaches, good 3s to 4s, others 1/9 to 2/9; nectarines, 2s to 3/3;-apricots, 7s to 9s 6d ; grapes, lOd to Is 3d; pears; Bon Gretion, 4s to 4s 6d, ooo.kers '4s to 4s to 6s • tynaipus, 2s 6d to 6s 9d; tendons, choice to 13s bushel case.