COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 24 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 3slod 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. Prices at Monday's sale showed a redaction of 2d to 3d on last quotations. Summers I4£d to 16d, racks 16d to 19d, autumns 25d to 30d, incoming 32d to 35d, early winters 36d to 38d per lb, selected winter does to 60d, winter blacks 50d to 65d, winter bucks 38d to 42d, winter does 42d to 58d 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 tat 16s to 20s; tallow in tins, 26s to 28s; casks, 28s to 35spercwtj Horsehair.— Market quiet, 16d to 17d per lb. We Btore and drees '.all clasßes 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 per lb. Dairy butter in pats, Is 3d. Eggs.—2s Honey.—4|d per lb. Poultry.— Local roosters, 4s 6d per pair; hecs, 3s 6d per pair; ducks, 4s 6d per pair. Bacon —Rolls, Is 3d; hams Is 4d. Cheese.—lOJd par lh. , Pigs.—ln good demand. Baconeis 7|d, porkers, 7j£d; heavy weights, sd.