COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 27 July 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Water 9, Ritchie and Co. t 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 quiet. 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 considerably easier owing to difficulty of obtaining freight. Summers 16d to 17d, racks 18d to 226, \ autumns 2*sd to 32d, incoming 35d to 37d, early winters 36d to 38d per lb, selected winter does to 69d, winter blacks 60d to 80d, winter bucks 40d to v 4sd, winter does 48d to 64d per lb. j Hides.—Government have now takeq these over and valuations are helcT every three weeks. Sheepskins.—Government valuation held fortnightly. Tallow.—Market firih at late rates Rough fat 16s to 20s; tallow in tins, 26s to 28s; casks, 28s to 35spercwt. Horsehair.— Market quiet, 16d to. 17d per lb. We store and dress all claaies of seed and grain.. All our machinery is of the latest and most effective design, and is operated by practical men of long experience. General Produce Report. Butter.—Best salt, Is 3d par lb. Dairy butter in pats, 1b 3d.

Eggs.—2a Honey.—4Jd per lb. Poultry.— Local roosters, 4s 6d per pair; hens, 3s 6eLper pair; ducks, 4s 6d per pair.

Bacon —Rolls, is 3d; hamß Is 4d. Cheese.—lOJd por lb. x good demand. Baeoners 7fd, porkers, 7|d; heavy weights, sd.