SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 May 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 10s per ton (bags weighed in) Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chaff, £5. Flour, £10 10s to £11 10s. Oatmeal, £10 10s to £11. 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, 5s per cwt. Flour • 2001 b, 23s 6d ; 501T> 6s 6d Oatmeal : 501 b, 6s 6d ; 25TT), 3s 6d. Pollard 10s 9d per bag. Bran 5s 6d. Chaff, 3s.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin reports :—Wholesale prices only — Oats : Milling, Is 9d to Is lOd : feed, Is 6d to Is 9d. Wheat : Milling, 4s to 4s 3d ; fowls' wheat, 3s 6d to 4s. Potatoes : Derwents, £3 15s- kidneys, £2 10s to £3 10s. Chaff : Old, £2 10s to £3 5s , new, £3 5s to £3 15s. Straw : Pressed wheat, 30s , oaten, 35s ; loose, £2. Flour : Sacks, £10 ; 501 b, £10 15s; 251h, £11. Oatmeal: 251 b, £10 10s. Pollard, £6. Butter : Dairy, 8d to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese : Old, fi^d ; new, ssd. Eggs, Is lOd. Onions : Melbourne, £5 10s ; Christchurch, £4.

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

We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday. The catalogue submitted comprised oats, fowl wheat, potatoes, and chaff, for nil of which there was fair competition up to current values. Prices ruled as undor :—: —

Oats — Prime feed and milling lines have not been offering so tieely and aie in fair demand, prices being firm at late quotations. For lines a shade off color but in sound condition there is also good inquiry, but small supplies coming forward. Quotations Prime milling, Is 9d to Is lOd ; good to best feed, Is 8d to Is 9d ; medium and Inferior, la 6d to Is 7£d per bushel (sacks extra).

Wheat. — Only very prime to choice lines have much attention from millers. Medium qualities are in the meantime almost neglected. Fowl wheat has been offering more freely at slightly reduced rates. Quotations : Prime milling, 4s Id to 4s 3d ; medium to good, 3s lid to 4s ; best whole fowl wheat, 3s 8d to 3s lOd ; broken and damaged, 3s 3d to 3s 7d per bushel (sacks extra).

Potatoes — During the past week consignments have been 'more numerous, nnd in consequence supplies are somewhat in excess of the demand. Fair sales have been effected on the basis of last week's quotations, but during tho'past few days these have been difficult to maintain, and in order to clear consignments lower values ha\e to be accepted. Quotations : Prime Derwents, £3 10s to £3 12s 6d ; medium, £3 to £3 7s 6d ; other sorts, £2 15s to £3 5s per ton (bags in).

Chaff — The supply during the past week has been considerably heavier than for some time. Most of the chaff

coming forward is of medium quality, for which there is «S e tt nnqUli7n nqUl i7- P7-mP 7- me ' bright oaten sheaf still has fa r attention, choice lines l>eing saleable at prices which show no reduction on late values. Medium sorts, however, have declined fully 5s per ton Quotations • Best oaten sheaf, £3 10s to £3 15s ; cho cc to £3 17b 6d • medium to good, £3 to £3 7s 6d • light damaged and discolored, £2 to £2 15s per ton (bafs extra"'