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T\c Waikato Times O/Hce, Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS. Mu Alkx. Aitkkn's Market Rkpoht for tho week ending April O.—A large amount of business has been dono in all lines. Four sales of produce, poultry, and fruit have been held as followsOn Tuesday, produce and fruit; on Wednesday, furniture and effects ; on Thursday, Island fruit, ex Kichmond ; and on Friday tho usual market. sale. The wliolo have been largely attended, with spirited competition for all offered. Potatoes have been in fair supply; a, good demand e.vists ; values unchanged, onions are scarce, and have fetched high pricos. Vegetables have been more plentiful. All sold fairly well. Grain quiet. Fresh butter in fair supply; good values obtained. Eggs, increased supplies. Cheese iu fair demand, but quality must be good to command attention. Poultry has been iu large supply ; prices were somewhat better. Pigs: Small supply ; none very large : values unchanged. In fruit the supplies still continue large. The demand has been somewhat better, but little alteration in value. Apples sold at a higher average on Friday than they have for somo weeks. Pears: Good dessert kinds have sold well, but small and inferior are low. Grapes have sold at greatly advanced values. Plums still low. Peaches: The bulk of the supply have been of choice quality, and high values obtained. Quinces : A fair supply ! good prices obtained. Bacon and hams of good quality are scarce, and commanding good values. Tho following are the week's quotations Fowls, poor and old, lOd to Is Id ; good table fowls, Is 3d to Is lid ; roosters, heavy, Is 9d to 2s 4d ; small ditto, Is to la Gd; chicks. Sd to Is ; light Brahmas, Is Sd to 2s lid; ducks, heavy, Is 8d to 2s ; young and poor ditto, Is Id to Is 3d ; geese, 2s 9d to 3s; turkeys, 3s 9d to 5s 3d; pigs, 3s 3d to 7«, no choico quantity to hand. Potatoes : Good, £4 15s tii £5 5s ; poor, 4s to 4s 3d 2s 3d to 3s Gd; cow potatoes, Is Gd to 2s; kidney seed, £6 10s. Onions, l|d to 2d per lb; oats, Danish, 2s to 2s 4d; bran and sharps, £7; maize, 3s Gd ; pumpkins, £3 5s to £4 10s; butter fresh, 7d to Sd ; eggs, good, Is (id to Is 9d ; others do., Is to Is 2d ; bacon, 2d to 7d ; hams, sid to 9d ; cheese, 3d to 5d ; honey, ordinary, 2Jd to 3d ; Waikato clover honey, in bulk, small tins, 4d. Apples : Good cooking, gd to lid ; small inferior, Id ; dessert variety, : ,'d to 1-,' d. Quinces, Id to Pears : Beurre Diel, hard, Id to lAd; other dessert varieties, l'|jd to 3d ; Worrell's, Id to lAd ; stewing pears, Jd to lid ; inferior, gd to Yd. Poaches : Poor, ljd to 2d per lb, and bd to lid per dozen ; choice, 3d to 5d per lb, and lOd to 2s Id per dozen. Grapes, 8d to 9Ad per lb ; plums, to 2d.
C KRISTG lIUIIC IT GKAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS. Messiw Kaye and Cabteb's Repokt for week ending April Ist, ISBO : —Wheat: Tuscan, 4s 2d ; pearl, -is; Hunter's, 4s; Fowl wheat : Good whole, 3s !)d ; broken, 3s lid. Oats: Milling, 2s lOd ; bright short, 2s 9d ; duns, 21 Ud ; Danish, 2s Gd, farmers holding firm. Barley : Prime malting, 4s 2d ; good, 3s lOd to 4s ; feed, 3s 3d ; Cape, os ; pearl, £20 10s. Peas : Prussian blue, 4s ; split', £14. Beans : Good whole, 3s 3d ; medium, 3s 2d. Flour ; Roller, £11; stone, £10. Bran, 95s ; sharps, 91s(scarce) : Oatmeal, in 251b. bags, £14; 71bs, £15 10s. Ryecorn,-3s Sd ; linseed, £17. Ryegrass : Machine dressed, 3s Gd to 3s 9d. Cocksfoot: Prime, 3.'jd ; good seed, 3d to 3 Id. Oatshoaf chaff, £4 ss. Hay : Oaten (baled), £4 10s. Butter, lOd for prime new. Cheese : Loaf, to lid ; medium, to sid. Hams, Did ; bacon, 7£d ; hams and bacon, Bd. Lard : In kegs, 4d ; bladders, 4.', dto sd. The above prices current are all f.0.b., Lyttelton, sacks and packages extra, except where otherwise specified. Farmers' deliveries becoming more frequent, the quality generally is very satisfactory.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2612, 9 April 1889, Page 2
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