Messrs Laery and Co., Limited, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market:—Wheat, 3s Id per bushel: oats, 2s 9d to 3s per bushel; barley, 2s 4d per bushel ; maize, 3s per bushel; flour, £7 15s per ton ; pollard, 95s per ton ; bran, 90s per ton ; oatmeal, .£l3 10s per ton ; chaff, .£3 5s per ton ; hay, £4: 10s per ton ; field beans, 3s 6d per bushel; field peas, 4s 3d per bushel ; potatoes, old, 70s to 75s per ton; onions, new, .£l4 per ton ; ryegrass, 4s per bushel; cocksfoot seed, 2id to 3j!d per lb ; butter, prime 8d to 9d per lb : pastry 7d ; cheese, 5d per lb ; bacon, 6f per lb, best factory ; hams, 8d ; rolls 7\ ; fowls, 4s to 4s 6d per pair ; roosters, 4s to 5s per pair ; ducks, 5s to 5s 9d per pair ; turkeys, hens 8s per pair ; gobblers 9s to 13s per pair ; geese, 5s 6d per pair ; hens eggs, lOd per dozen ; cabbages, Is to 3s 6d per sack ; cauliflowers' 6s to 10s per sack ; strawberries, Is 3d to Is 8d per pint' rhubarb 4s to 6s 9d per dozen ; gooseberries, 6s to 8s per quarter case. Three bullocks sent 'to the Christchurch Show by Mr W. C. Buchanan, of Wairarapa, weighed (alive) 21cwt 2qr 141 b, 21cwt Oqr 81b, and 20cwt 2qr 241 b. They were sold to the Christchurch butchers for .£24, .£22 10s, and .£2O 10s, respectively.
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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 29, 19 November 1901, Page 3
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