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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 194, 30 June 1903, Page 4

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Chkjstchurch, June 2.. The following are current prices jiid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, and fee ©f commission, except where otherwie specified : Wheat, Hunter's 3s 9d to 3s 9rkTpeij bushel, Tuscan 3s 9d to 3s 10J,~Pear] 4s Od at country stations. ■ ■ • Oats.—Heavy Canadians Is 9d to Is lOd, short feed Is 8d to Is 9d, Duns Is 7d to Is 8d and Danish Is Bd, at country stations. Barley : Prime malting, 3s Od tu 3> 3d ; secondary quality, 2s 9d, to 3s at country stations. Peas : Blue Prussians 5s 9d, Partridge 3s 6d to 3s 9d, at country stations. Flour, millers', quotations, Roller £lO. .Pollard : j£s ton. Bran : .£4 os. Oatmeal : .£lO 10s f.o.b.

Ryegrass— 'Well dressed farmers 1 parcels, 2s 6d to 3s Od, extra prime 2s Sd to 3s 3d, Italian ryegrass 3s to 3s 6d; cocksfoot, 111 b seed 2]-d to 2.fd, 131 b seed 3d to 3.id. Oatsheaf chaff, £2 15s at country stations.

Potatoes, Early Rose L 3 10s to L 4 ss, kidneys •L 4 10s to L 5, Derwents 5.0 s ton at country stations. Onions, 50s at country stations.

Dairy Produce; Cheese, factory 5d to6d,■ dairy 5d to s£,butterfactory,local 11 id per lb, North Island lid, dairy, 9d to lOd prime, salt (in boxes) 8d to9d, bacon 8d to" 9d, hams 8d to lOd, factory bacon and hams |d higher, fo.b.e<;gs Is 4d dozen.—Chiistchurch Press.

WELLINGTON PRODUCE REPORT. Messrs George Thomas and Co., fruit and produce auctioneers, Wellington, report prices ruling in the Wellington Market, under date 24th June, as follows : —Dessert apples 5s to 8s od, cooking apples 5s to 6s Od ; cooking pears, 7s per case ; good dessert pears, 8s 0d to 10s : onions, 4s Od per cwt ; walnuts, od to sgd ; fresh eggs, Is Is 6d per dozen, limed Is 5d dozen ; fowls, 2s 6d to 3s Od, ducks, 4s od, turkeys 10s ; pickling onions 15s per cwt ; honey, at 4d per lb, citron melons, 3s d perewt ; pie melons, ss, swedes, 2s 6d cwt ; quinces 5s per case', pumpkins 6s per sack ; marrows 5s per sack; garlic 15s per cwt; butter, dairy, 8d to 9d ; cabbages, Is 6d per sack ; cauliflowers, 5s Od per sack ; carrots 2s 6d pei cwt.

STOCKSALES. Christchurch, Juno 24. There was an average yarding of stock and a good attendance of buyers at Addington today. Fat Cattle: 159 were entered, including a few useful steers, but the larger proportion consisted of light. The beef pens were disposed of readily at about last week's rates. Steers .£9 15s to .£ll 2s 6d ; extra prime .£l2 to .£l3 17s 6d ; heifers .£6 2s 6d to £9 10s; cows <£s 17s 6d to £,\ 1 : beef 27s to 30s per I.oolb. '. Fat lambs : 1500 were yarded. All of prime quality evoked brisk bidding a nong buyers for export, who took the bulk of the entry at prices about Is per head in advance of those ruling last week.. Lambs which were half fat weie hard to quit. Tegs 17s 3d to 21s 6 1 ; extra prime 31s; freezers 13s to 17s: butchers' 12s 3d to 17s 6d.

Fat sheep-—A large entry comprised numerous lines of particularly prime wethers and young" ewes which were eagerly competed for by freezing buyers at prices fully Is per head above last week's. For lighter weight wethers and medium quality ewes, the market was firm at last week's prices. Prime wethers 18s to 24s 3d ; lighter weights 15s lOd to 17s 6d ; merino wethers{fpr freezing 16s 3d to 20s';

lighter 14s 7d ; prime young ewes . 18s to 22s ; freezing 13s to 16s 9d, butchers 15s to I7s 6d ; others' lis to 14s 6d, wethers and ewes 16s Id to 2is.

Pigs—There was only a moderate yarding of fat pigs, and the presence of outside buyers "firmed" the market for baconers which sold.at from 46s to 635, equal to to 5d per lb : porkers j-ealised from 26s to 39s 6d equal to 5d ?v lb.

Messrs F. H. Wood and Sons, Ltd., he 4 their monthly stock sale at Upper Hut, on Monday. Notwithstanding the -ery. inclement weather, a fair oumW of cattle were yarded; only two p<ns of sheep came forward. The fcllowior i s a quotation of prices - Sheep :Ewes in lamb, 7s 2d ; small lambs 4* lOd. Cattle : Calves 295, yearling .eifers 8 44 s ; heifers in milk, L 4 2s 6d to L 5 ; heifers for factory profit, L 4 \s ; cows in milk and in calf, L 4 7s 6d ; hrward store cows to L 6 ; bulls 40. L-aught colt, L 26.