COMMERCIAL

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2669, 20 August 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

The IFaikato Timts Office, Monday. AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Mil A lex. Aitkkn's Market Report for the week ending August 17. —Large supply of all kinds of produce has been received. The demand lias also been good for good lines. In farm produce values .show but littli alteration ; in dairy produce prices are still lower. Poultry has been in good supply, and sold at a higher average. In the fruit department the supply has been larger than usual, and prices have averaged slightly higher. The following are the quotations: —Poor and old fowls, Is 2d to Is 4d ; good table fowls, Is fid to 2s ; roosters in condition, Is 8d to 2s -Id ; laying hens, 2s to 2s 4d ; puro bred fowls, 4a to 12s each ; ducks, Is lOd to 2s 8d ; turkeys, 4 s to 5s 9d ; poor, 2s Cd to 3s ; geese, 3s 6d ; pigs, good breeds, 9s 6d to 15s ; small inferior, 3s 2d to 5s ; potatoes, local, £4 to £-1 15s; inferior, £1 10s to £3 ; Canterbury, £5; Oamarus, £5 10s; Hawera, £4 10s to £5 ; Napier, £5 ; Gisborne, £4 ; new, l.kl; onions, sound, 4Jd to 5Jd ; damaged, ljd to 2Ad ; wheat, 3s 6d ; oats', 3s 3d ; bran and sfiarps, 0s; bacon, local, 5d to (id ; hams, (id to 8d ; honey, 3d to 4d ; cheese, ordinary, 3d to od ; loaf, 5/fd to Gd ; butter, fresh, 4d to lOd ; eggs, 7d to lOd; pickled, 4d; butter, corned, exira prime, 7^d; medium, to sd; inferior, 11 d to 2d ; apples. Stone Pippins, 3id to 4|d ; Ohinemuri, to 4d ; Simmon's, 3id to 4.1 d; Schockley, to 3jd ; Stunner's, to 3'i'd ; French Crab, 3d to 3|d ; Majetin, 3d to S^d; Northern Spy, 'lid; Norfolk Beetfng, 4Ad ; Nickerjaclc, 4.1 d ; other kinds, 3jd to 4d ; shrivelled, 2Ui to 2jd.