COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 6 July 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Waters, Ritchie and Co., Auctioneers, Wool, Grain, Produce and Commission Agents, report Whole sale for the week as under. All quotations are subject to market fluctuations. ■ ' ! Wheat.—Good demand at Government prices. Oats.—: Market more active. Milling 3s lOd to 4s>-bright short feed 3s 8d to 3s 9d, medium and inferior 3s 3d to 3s 6d on trucks. Rabbitskins.- Market excited and prices advanced from 2d to 6d per lb. autumns 2<sd to 32d, incoming 3ad to 37d, early, winters 38d to 40d per lb, winters 42d to 56a, selected winter does to 69d, winter blacks 60d to 86d per lb. Hides.—Government have now taken -these over and valuations are held every three weeks. Sheepskins.—Government valuation held fortnightly. Tallow. —Market firm at late rates Rough rat 16s to 20s; tallow in tins, 26s to 28s; casks, 28s to 35s per'ewt. Horsehair.— Market quiet, 16d to 17d per lb. We store and dress all classes of Beed and grain. All our machinery is of the latest and most effective design, and is operated by practica' men of long experience. General Produce Report. Butter. —Best 3alt, la 3d per lb. Dairy butter in pats, Is 3d. Eggs.—2s Honey.—4£d per lb. Poultry.— Local roosters, 4s 6d per pair; hens, 3s 6d per pair; ducks, 4s 6d per pair. : Bacon—Rolls, le 3d; hams Is 4d. Cheese. —lOid per lb. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baconers 7Jd, porkers, 7j£d; heavyweights, sd.