PRODUCE MARKET

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 March 1915, Page 3

PRODUCE MARKET

Mr. J. JONES, Auctioneer, Victoria and Lome Streets, Auckland, reports :— The market this week has been steady. Potatoes are lower in value. Fruit has arrived in very heavy supply, and prices are about same as last quotations. The market is still very heavily supplied with poultry ; most of the birds are moulting and in 'poor condition ; the demand is not strong for hens; good table roosters are in good demand. POULTRY (2,500 penned) Hens, 1/3 to 1/6, good 1/ to 1/4, others Is to 1/3 ; roosters, prime 3s 3d to 4s 3d, good 3s to 3s 2d, cockrells 1/3 to 2s; duck::-, young 1/3 to 3/, old Is to 1/3 ; geese, to 3/6 ; turkeys gobblers 6/ to 8/, hens 3/ to 4/. Pigs, 6s to 14/9. FARM PRODUCE Potatoes, prime, 5s to 6s, good 4/10 to 5s 6d, poor 3s to 4s; onions, 7s 6d to 9s ; picklers 7/6 to 8/6 ; pumpkins 5s to 6s ; swedes, £2 to £2 10s, Vegetables are scarce. DAIRY PRQDUOE Eggs fresh 1/6 to 1/8, butter lOd to lO^d, bacon 9d to lOd, cheese 6d to Bd, honey 3s to ss, bulk honey 2d to 3Hd GRAIN Wheat, 6/9 to 8s; oats, 4/10, seed Algerian, 7/6; bran, £8 10s; sharps £8 10s ; barley 6s 6d; chaff, local £7 to £7 lOd at station. FRUIT Apples, dessert 3/3 to ss, good 3s to to 3/9, cookers 3/ to 4/; plums, Burbanks Is to 2s, Ogans Is to' 1/5; peaches, good 2/ to 3s, others 1/3 to Is 6d; grapes, 9d to Is ; pears, Bon Cretion, 4s to 4s 6d, cookers 3s to 4s ; tomatoes, 2s Id to 3s 9d; lemons, choice 6/6 to 9/6.