SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4, 25 January 1900, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

The Invercargill Grain Brokers' Association leport that oats are now very scarce. The demand during the week has been good, and sales have been effected on the following basis : A grade, 2s 3Jd ; B grade, 2s 3d ; C grade, 2s 2id (f.0.b., sacks in). Invercargill prices current: — Wholesale: Butter, fresh, 5d ; eggs, 8d per doz ; cheese, farm, 3Jd ; bacon, farm, 7d ; do (rolled), farm, (id ; hams, 81 ; potatoes, LI 10s per ton ; barley, 2s to 2s 6d ; fowl wheat, 2s ; chaff, L 2 10s per ton ; flour, L 8 ; oatmeal, L 9 to LlO ; pollard, L 3 ; bran, L 2 10s, including bags. Retail — Fresh butter, 7d; eggs, lodper doz ; cheese, (id ; bacon, rolled, Bd, sliced, 9d; hams, lO.i ; potatoes, 2s per cwt ; flour, 2001 b, 15s ; 501 b, 4s 3d ; oatmeal, 501 b. 5s : 251 b, 2s 9d ; pollard, .'»s '.)d per bag ; bran, 3s (id per bag ; chaff, L 3 per ton ; fowls' feed, 2s 3d per bushel.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, repot ts : — Wholesale price only — Oats: Good demand. Feeding, la lid to 2s ; milling, 2s Id to 2s 2d. Wheat : milling, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; fowls' wheat. 2s Od to 2s 2d. Hay : ryegrass and clover, best, L 3. Straw: pressed, 245; loose, 28s. Bran :L2 15s. Pollard : L 3. Flour :L6 10s to L 7. Butter : best brands factory, lOd to lid; dniry, 0d to Bd. Oatmeal- Lll. Potatoes : old out of season. Chaff : much firmer demand ; L 2 15s to L 3 ss. New potatoes, L3 T Auckland ; local, 4s.