COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 10 August 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 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 unsettled owing to difficulty of obtaining freight. Summers 16d to 17d, racks 17d to 19d, 1 autumns 26d to 30d, incoming 33d to 35d, early winters 36d to 38d per lb, selected winter does to 66d, winter blacks 56d to 76d, winter bucks 38d to 4fid, winter does 46d to 60d per lb. Hides.—GoTernment have now takan these over and valuations are held every three weeks. Sheepskins.—Government valuation held fortnightly. Tallow.—Market firm at late rates. Rough tat 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 classes 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.—Beit salt, Is 3d per lb. Dairy butter in pate, Is 3d. i Eggs.—2s i Honey.—4Jd per lb. Poultry.— Local roosters, 4s 6d per pair; hens, 3s 6d per pair; ducks, 4s 6d per pair. Bacon —Rolls, Is 3d; hama Is 4d. Cheese. —IOJd per lb. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baconers 7f d, porkere, 7Jd; heavy weights, sd.