COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 5 October 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Wat«rs,_ Ritchie and Co., Auctioneers, Wool, Grain, Produce and Commission Agents, report whole sale for the week as ynder. All quotations are subject to. market fluctuations. Wheat.—Good demand at Government prices.

Oats. —Market firm. Milling 3a lOd to 4s, bright short feed 3s 8d to 3s 9d, medium and inferior 3s 3d to 3s 6d on trucks. Rabbitskins.—Summers l4d to 16d, racks\l6d to 19d, autumns 24d to'3od, (incoming 33d to3sd, winter blacks 48d to 60d, winter bucks 35d to 39d, winter does'46d to 50d; second winter does 40d to 42d; outgoing bucks, 26d to 30d; does 30d to 36d; springs 19d to 24d per lb. Hides.—Government have now taken these over and valuations are held every fortnight. Sheepskins.—Government valuation held fortnightly.

Tallow.— iVJarket firm at late rates. Rough rat 16s to 20s; tallow, in tins, 26s to 30s; casks, 28s to 353;. per cwt. Horsehair.— Market quiet; 15d to 16d 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.— Beßt salt, Is 3d per lb. Dairy butter in pats, Is 3d. Eggs.—2s Honey.—4Jd per lb. / Poultry.— Local roesteis, 4s 6d per pair; hens, 3s 6d per pair; ducks, 4s 6d per pair. .

Bacon —Rolls, la 3d; hams Is 4d. , Cheese.—lOid par lb. Pigs-—ln good demand. Baconera 7£d, porkers, 7|d; heavyweights, sd.