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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 July 1915, Page 2

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PRDOUCE MARKET Mr. J. Jones, Auctioneer, Victoria and Lome Streets, Auckland, reports :— POULTRY Hens prime 2/2 to 3/4, good 1/8 to 2/2, poor 1/4 to 1/6; ducks, •' 2/ to 3/2; roosters, prime 3/6 to 4/6; good 3/ to 3/2, cockrells 1/6 to 2/; geese, 3/ to 4/6; turkeys, gobblers, 6s to 9/9, hens 3/6 to ss. Pigs, 8/ to 14/6. FARM PRODUCE Potatoes, Southern £7 10s to £8 5s local good to £5 10s ; pumpkins, £i 10s £4; melons, 4s ; swedes, £2 to £2 10s; onions, to £7; kumaras, £7 to £9. DAIRY PRODUCE Butter, 1/1 to 1/3 ; eggs, 1/8 to 1/9^ ; cheese, 9d tolOd; honey, 3d to 3^d bacon, 9d to 9j^>d. GRAIN Maize, 6/3 ; wheat, 8/; oats, 5/3 ; bran, 9/6; sharps, 10/6; Algerian seed oats, 7/9 ; chaff, Southern, 10s. FRUIT Apples; dessert, 5/ to 7/6, cookers 4/6 to 5s 9d; pears, 6s to 9s; lemons, s 6d to 6s 6d.

========= N An advance of £1 per ton in the wholesale prices of all grades of sugar, syrup, and treacle is announced by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. .The wholesale price of sugar is now £21 per ton. A rise of £6 since last August. '