SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 15, 9 April 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current : — Wholesale — Butter (farm), 8d ; butter (factory, bulk, lid; pats, ll£d cash, ll^d booked. Eggs, Is 3d per dozen Cheese, factory, 6£d. Hams, 9d. Potatoes, £3 per ton (bags weighed in). Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chaff, £5. Flour, £10 15s to £11 15s. Oatmeal, £11 10s to £12. Bran, £4 10s. Pollard, £6 10s. Retail — Fresh Butter, lOd. Butter (factory), pats, Is lsd ; bulk, Is. Eggs, Is 6d. per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, 4s 6d per cwt. Flour, 2001 b, 23s 6d ; 501 b, 6s 6d. Oatmeal. 501 b, 7s ; 251 b, 3s 6d. Pollard, 10s 9d per bag Bran 5s 6d. Chaff, 3s. The above prices were for fair average quality on Friday.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin, repoits :—: — Wholesale prices only — Oats: Milling, Is 10s ; feed, Is 7d Wheat : Milling, 4s 2d to 4s 6d , fowls' wheat, 3s 6d to 4s 2d. Potatoes : Derwents, £4 ; kidneys, £2 l()s to £3 10s. Chafi : Old, £2 10s to £3 5s ; new, £3 r.« to £3 15s Straw : Pressed wheat, 30s ; oaten, 35s ; loose, £2. Flour: Sacks, £10; 50ID, £10 15s; 251T>, £11. Oatmeal, 25rb, £11. Bran, £4 10s Pollard, £5 10s. Butter : Dairy ,Bd to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese, Old, 6^d ; new, ssd Eggs, la 6d. Onions : Melbourne, £s ; Christchurch, £4 15s.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. (Limited) report as follows :—: —

We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a representative catalogue to a good attendance of buyers. Most of the lots on offer were well competed for at prices on a par with late quotations, the only noticeable drop in values being for potatoes. Prices ruled as under: Oats — There is fair inqmrv for prime milling Sutherlands and Gartons. Good to best feed, suitable for export, is also in steady demand, but shippers evince little disposition to purchase at prices beyond the equivalent at northern ports We quote Prime milling, Is 9d to Is lOd , good to "best feed, Is 7d to Is B id ; inferior and medium, Is 5d to Is 6d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.— During the past week millers' operations have been somewhat restricted, owing largely to the uncertainty prevailing with regard to the prospective price of flour. Prime to choice lines of milling quality have, however, been readily, placed at quotations. Medium quality has not the same attention, but is readily quitted as fowl wheat, for which prices are a little below those ruling for milling quality We quote : Prime milling 4s 2d to 4s 4d ; best whole fowl wheat, 4s to 4s Id ; broken and damaged, 3s 3d to 3s lOd per bushel (sacks extra). . Potatoes .—The market is again well supplied, consignments having come forward steadily, chiefly from Oamaru and Taieri. In consequence of the full supply forward prices suffered a decline of 15s to 20s per ton. Wo quote : Best sorts, £3 10s to £3 15s ; medium to good, £3 to £3 5s ; inferior and stale, £2 5s to £2 15s per ton (bags in).

Chaff. — Local stocks have been steadily working off, and in the absence of heavy consignments values are fairly well maintained. Most of the old chaff on hand is of only medium quality, and preference is given to prime, bright, heavy, new chaff. We quote : Prime oaten sheaf, £3 5s to £3 12s 6d ; choice, to £3 15b ; medium to good, £2 15s to £3 ; inferior, £2 to £2 10s per ton (bags extra).