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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 467, 30 April 1890, Page 5

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Messrs Arthur and Buddie’s Weekly Report.—Produce of all kinds in fair demand, prices about the same as last week. Potatoes not in such demand as last week. Onions, no large orders on band. Good bacon and hams are much wanted. Cheese of good quality is wanted. Fresh butter, a large supply of inferior ; good is wanted. Orders for good corned butter could not be supplied. Fruit has come to hand in very largo quantities; prices have ruled better. Pears. 3d to 2Jd ; apples, various, 3d to Ifd; inferior, id; quinces, Jd to l}d; lemons, 4?.d to Is 6d per dozen. Fouliry, m good supply and demand. Fowls sold. Is to 2s; chicks, 4d to Is 3d; Dorkings, 2s 9d to 4s 6d; ducks. Is 4d to 23 7d; no geese entered; turkeys were much wanted, none to hand. Pigs were entered in fair numbers, the demand was limited, prices ruled low, from 2s 3d to 8s 3d. There have been.six sales by auction. Mr Alexander Aitken’s Report.—Business for the week has been very brisk, and produce of all kinds has been in full supply. Potatoes particularly plentiful, and of poor quality, excepting Waikato lots, which give satisfaction. These move freely at £4 to £4 Its, sacks extra: other inferior lots, 30s to 40s; medium, £3 to £3 ss; cow potatoes, glutted, at 18s to 25s per ton; oats, local, plentiful, at Is lOd to 2s; wheat, prime, 3s 2d to 3s 3d; medium, 3s ; bran, £4; sharps, scarce, at £5; pumpkins, Is to 3s; cabbages, 2s to 2s 6d; carrots, 2s 6d to 3s; mangolds, , 20s to 30s; garlic plentiful, with no demand.' Onions : Full supplies. Prices have ranged from 6o to 8s; picklers, 3d. Ba> on and hams ; A fair quantity of new local entered. All cleared at 8d to 9d for hams, and 6d to 7d for bacon; inferior, 4d to 43d. Cheese continues plentiful. Farmers’ makes, 3d to 3jd; inferior, 2d to 2Ad; factory, large sizes, 4-Jd; loaves, 51d; farmers’loaves, 4d. Butter: The market has been glutted with inferior. Upwards of one ton received. Prime lots realised 4|d to 8d; other lots Id to 4d. Keg butter: Some prime lots to hand met with fair demand at 6£d to 8d; pastry, all cleared at 3d. Eggs: Fair supply, prices ruled from Is 4d to 2s for fresh lots, and Is 2d to Is 3d for good pickled lots. Honey; Most lots cleared; section, 3d to 33d; bulk, 2d to 2id; clovar, 31d to Id. In the poultry department the supply has been large, all pons filled; first-class table lots. Is 7d to 2s Id; poor, young, small, Is 2d to Is 4d; roosters, young, in condition, Is 8d to 2s 4d each; small. Is 3d to Is 6d; ducks, good supply, at2« Id to2s 6d each; Rouen, 3s 6d each; geese-2s 6d; turkeys, 2s lid to ss. Pigs in good supply, met with better demand, at 6s to 93 for best lots; others, 3s 6d to 5s 3d. Fruit has been entered in very large quantities at both sales, and prices have been very satisfactory; good cooking apples, Id to ljd; Ohinemuri and stone pippin, ljd to lj|d; Blenheims, good, l£d to lid; over ripe, 3d to Id; Cox’s orange, lid to 2d; Adam’s pearmain. 2d; golden russet, ljjd to 23d; poor and damaged apples, 2d to 3d; northern spy, lid to ljd ; Boston, lid to 2d ; first-class Beurre Diel pears, 23d to 3d ; medium, 13d to 2d; over ripe. Id to lid; Napoleons, Id to 13d; Winter Nelis, 3d; quinces, lid; passion trait, 3d to 3Jd ; walnuts, 6Jd to 8d ; lemons, 4Jd to Is 9d per dozen, according to size; water melons, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per dozen; tomatoes, Id to 13d; medlars, 3d; bananas. Id to lid; oranges, 8d; desiccated cocoanut, 73d, poor demand. The market for New Zealand hemp is good, and medium quality is bringing £22 15s and £23. Kauri gum: Fine pale averages £6Bar silver, 475.