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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 460, 13 July 1899, Page 2

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Thk Waikato Argus Office, Wednesday. ROTORUA MARKET REPORT. Mk W. T. Raymond Rkports. At the auction mart on Monday poultry were in demand, good table fowls selling freely. Roosters, Is 3d to Is 7(i ; heus, Is 6d for extra good, Is 3d for ordinary ; butter, Is lb ; eggs, Is 2d dozen ; onions, Id to lid lb ; silver beet, 4d bunch ; celery, 3d stick ; potatoes, 63 bag ; carrots, 2s 3d bag ; pumpkins, Id lb ; honey, 5d lb ; Cape gooseberries, 7d lb : cheese, 5d lb ; lard, 4d lb ; pork (wild), 2£d lb ; bacon (sides), 7*d lb. A few trees of various kinds (fruit and shelter) \ sold at fair prices. HAWERA MARKETS. The Egmont Farmers' Union (Limi ted) report under date, Hawera, 7th July:—At the Glover Road Yards on the 6th instant the yards were well filled with both cattle and sheep. Although there was a large attendance, bidding was slow for all classes of stock, other than two and three-year-old steers and springing heifers Fat bullocks. £5 7s to £6 ; store bullocks, £3 17s 6d to £4 7s 6d ; two to two and ahalf year steers, £2 19s to £3 15s ; fat cows, £3 to £3 lis; forward cows, £2 2s 6d to £2 10s ; two-year steers, £2 5s to £2 16s 6d ; heifers in calf, £2 15s to £3 5s ; springing cows, £3 7s 6d to £4; weaners, 18s to £1 2s 9d ; empty cowb, 7a.—At Okaiawa on the 7th inst. a good yarding of stock came forward, most of which changed hands at the hammer or before leaving the yards. Fat cows, £2 17s 6d to £4 5s ; dairy cows and heifers, £3 10s to £4 7s 6d ; twelve to eighteen months mixed cattle, £1 6s to £1 18s; dry cows and heifers, £1 10s to £2 2s ; eighteen months to two-year mixed cattle, £1 19s to £2 10a ; weaners, 17s to I9s 6d.