COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 31 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 firm. Milling 3s 10d to 4s, bright short feed 3s 8d to 3s 9d, medium and inferior 3s 3d to 33 6d on trucks. Rabbitskins. —Market unsettled owing to difficulty of obtaining freight. Prices at Monday's sale showed a redaction of Id to 3d on last quotations. Summers l4d to 16d, racks 16d to 17£ d, autumns 23d to 28d, incoming 31d to 33d, winter blacks 50d to 61d, winter bucks 35d to 39d, winter does 46d to 50d; second winter doaß 40d to 42d 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 35spercwt. Horsehair.— Market quiet, 16d to 17d per lb. We store and drees 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.—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; hens, 3s 6d per pair; ducks, 4s 6d per pair. Bacon —Rolls, Is 3d; hams Is 4d. Cheese. —10id por lb. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baconeis 7|d, porkers, 7sd; heavyweights, sd.