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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 61, 14 March 1902, Page 5

Messrs Laery and Co., Ltd., report the following wholesale prices on the Wellington produce market :—Wheat, 3s 8d to 3s 9d per bushel; feed oats, 2s 9d to 2s lOd per bushel ; seed oats, 2s lOd to 3s per bushel; barley 2s 9d bushel ; maize, 3s 3s Id bushel ; flour .£9 per ton ; pollard, 110 s ton; bran, lOOsper ton; oatmeal, .£l4 10s per ton ; chaff, 75s per ton ; potatoes, 60s to 70s per ton ; field peas, 4s 3d ; horse beans, 3s 6d per bushel ; ryegrass seed, 3s 9d ! to 5s per bushel ; cocksfoot seed, dressed 4d to 4gd, farmers' parcels, 3d to 3|d lb ; onions, Canterbury £6, local £■s per ton ; dairy butter, prime, 8d to B|d per lb; cheese, 5d ; bacon Bjjd, best factory ; hams 7.|d ; rolls 7d to 7|d fowls, 2s 9d to 3s per pair ; roosters, 3s 6d per pair ; ducks 3s to 4s per pair ; turkeys, hens 8s per pair ; gobblers 9s to 13s per pair; geese 5s per pair ; fresh eggs, Is 2d per dozen ; cabbages, 2s 6d to 4s ; cooking apples, 2s to 4s ; dessert apples, 3sto 9s. The smallpox outbreak in London, and the consequent rush to get vaccin - ated, is it is x said bringing a golden harvest to the doctors. It is stated that one London doctor has vaccinated 900 persons at half a sovereign each since the autumn. There are also any number of doctors who have vaccinated twenty persons a day each at about ssa head, which is the common middleclass charge: This would yield for six [ days of the week .£3O for less than two [ hours' work.