COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 2 November 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs , 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. -rMarket firm. Milling 3s 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 16d to 20d, autumns 25d to 33d, incoming 33d to37J, winter blacks 60d to 75d, winter bucks 36d to 41d, winter doe 3 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.— Market firm at late rates. Rough fat 16s to 20s; tallow in tins, 26s to 30s; casks, 28s to 35s 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 i 3 operated by practical men of long experience.

General Produce Report. Butter.—Best Bait, 1 3 3d per lb. Dairy butter in pats, Is. Eggs.—ls 2£d Honey.—s£d per lb. '

Poultry.— Local roosters, to 5s per pair; hens, 3s 6d per pair; ducks, 4s 6d per pair.

Bacon —Rolls, Ib 3d; hamß Is 4d. Cbeene.— 10Jd par. lb. Pigs-—ln good demand. Baconers ?2d, porkerß, 7Jd; heavy weights, sd.