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("h." = headed; "g." = gutted.) Port. Kind of Fish. Prices paid to Fishermen. Price per Pound. Retail Price per Pound. Wellington* .. Hapuka (groper) .. 3§d., h.andg. .. .. 5d., h. and g. .. .. 9d. cutlets. 8d., smoked fillets Snapper .. 2d. and 2Jd., g. .. .. 4d., g. .. .. 5d. and 6d. whole ; 9d. cutlets. Tarakihi .. 2d. and 2Jd., g. .. .. 4d., g. .. .. 5d. and 6d. whole; 9d. and lOd. fillets. lOd. smoked fillets .. Is. 2d. smoked fillets. Moki .. .. 2d., g. .. .. .. 3Jd. and 4d., g. .. .. 7d. cutlets. Hake .. .. 3fd., h. and g. .. .. 5d., h. and g. .. .. 9d. and lOd. outlets. 9d. smoked fillets .. Is. and Is. 2d. smoked fillets. Warehou .. Is. 3d. each, g. .. .. 4d., g. .. .. 8d. cutlets. 8d. smoked fillets .. . . 9d. and lOd. smoked fillets. Ling .. 3s. each, h. and g. .. .. 3d., h. and g. .. .. 7d. and 8d. cutlets. 8d. smoked fillets .. .. 9d. and lOd. smoked fillets. Blue cod .. 3|d., g. ; 6d., h. and g. .. 5d. and 6d., g. .. .. 7d. and 8d., g. 8d. and 10d., lx. and g. .. Is. and Is. 2d. filleted and skinned. lOd. smoked, split .. Is. smoked, split. Blue cod (Chatham lid., green, Chatham Island 8d., h. and g., frozen Island) lid. smoked, split .. Is. 2d. smoked, split. Bonita .. .. 3Jd., g. .. .. 5d., g. .. 9d. cutlets. Kingfish .. 2s. 6d. each, h. and g. .. 3d., h. and g. .. .. 7d. cutlets. Butterfish .. 3Jd. and 4d., g. .. .. 5d. and 6d., h. and g. .. 7d. and 8d. trimmed ; Is. and Is. 2d. filleted and skinned. Red cod .. .. 8d. smoked fillets .. .. lOd. smoked fillets. Crayfish .. 25s. sack .. .. .. 30s. sack .. .. 5d. to 6d. pound. Oysters .. .. .. 24s. 6d. sack .. .. 7d. in shell; lOd. dozen opened in cartons; Is. for fifteen in cartons. * Somewhere between 15 per cent, and 20 per cent, of the value of the total fish handled in Wellington is sold at the auction-market of Messrs. Townsend and Paul, Ltd. Recently prices (all per fish except flats) have ranged as under for the main varieties : 2s. 6d. to 13s. 9d., groper, h. and g.; 2M. to Is. 9d., blue cod, h. and g.; Sd. to 4s., snapper, g.; Is. 4d. to 7s„ ling, h. and g.; 5d. tolOd. per pound fiats, g.; 17s. 6d. to 37s. 0d., crayfish, sack.