MART REPORTS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 27 March 1926, Page 11

MART REPORTS.

THE RIALTO, TEMUKA.

A. H. Feun submits the following report for the week ending the 20th Ileus, old 2s to 3s, heavy 4s to os, ducks 4s Cd to 5s Cd, turkey hen os Pigs, small 6s Cd, better 12s 3d to 15s 6d, wheat 22s 6d to 27s Gd, barley IS Fruit Apples, cooking 2d lb, dessert 2*d to 3d. Stone fruit aboutfinished. Tomatoes 2d to 3d lb, pears 2d to 2£d lb. . Good second-hand furniture met a, reasonable demand. THE RIALTO. H. Allchurcli and Co. report for the week ended Saturday, March 20:—-At our weekly sale on Friday wo had a largo entry of poultry and pigs, and prices realised wore as follows Poultry.-—Hens, heavy 3s 6d to os, others 2s to 3s 3d, cockerels, heavy 4s Cd to Gs, others 2s 3d to 3s otl, roosters 3s, (jacks 4s to 6s, all at per oaif; chicks 5d each. Pigs.—AVeaners Os Cd, 10s, 10s Cd, 11s, 15s Cd, and 18s each, slips 18s, 18s Cd, 20s and 23s each. Peaches 2Jd to 4d, plums 2RI to 3d, pears IJd to 2RI per lb, apples, dessert IRI to 2J(I per lb, cookers lid to ljd per lb, nectarines 2,Ul to 3-jd lb, tomatoes lld to 3d per lb. Eggs.—The supply of South Canterbury Circle eggs is gradually decreasingj consequently the demand is much keener,' the price at present being 2s per dozen. Household furniture and effects. — On Friday at our rooms we disposed of a fair quantity of household furniture and effects at satisfactory prices.

Property Department.—AVt? have to report good steady business in ibis department, chiefly in town properties. Produce. —AVheat 17s Od to 235, barley 17s, poultry mash 30 s, lucerne meal 14s Cd, all at per sack, poultry grit 8s Cd, chick grit 9s, poultry mash 16s, all at per 1001 b bag. Bacon, .shoulders 10d to Is, sides Is per lb? onions 12s Cd per cental; potatoes Id ner lb, cabbage 2s to 6s per dozen.