SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 18 June 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current : — Wholesale — Butter (farm), 8d ; butter (factory), bulk, 9sd ; pats, 9|d cash, lOd b«oked. Eggs, Is 6d per doz. Cheese (factory), 6£d.. Hams, 9d. Potatoes, £3 10s per ton (bags weighed in). Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chaff, £3 per ton. Flour, £10 to £11. Oatmeal, £10 10s to £11. Bran, £4 10s. Pollard, £6 10s. Retail — Fresh Butter, lOd. Butter (factory), pats, Is. Eggs, 1» 9d per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, 5s per cwt. Flour : 2001 b. 22s ; 501 b, 6s 3d. Oatmeal : 501 b, 6« 6d ; 251 b, 3» fld. Pollard, 10s per batr. Bran, 5s 6d. Chaff, 2s.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin reports :—Wholesale prices only — Oats: Milling, Is 9sd to Is 10^d; feed. Is 6d to Is 9*d. Wheat : Milling, 3s 7d to 4s Id ; fowls' wheat, 3s 4d to 3s 7d. Potatoes: Derwents, £3 15s; kidneys, £2 10s to £3 10s. Chaff : Old, £2 10s to £3 5s ; new, £3 5s to £3 15e. Straw : Pressed wheat, 30s ; oaten, 35s ; loose, £2. Flour : Sacks, £10 ; 501 b, £10 15b; 251 b, £11. Oatmeal: 251 b, £10. Pollard, £6. Bran, £4. Butter . Dairy, 8d to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese : Old. 6Jd ; new. s id. Eggs, Is Od. Onions : Melbourne, £5 ; Christchurch. £4.

Messrs Donald Raid and Co (Limited) report : Wo held our weekly auction sale of gram and produce at our stores on Monday, when we .submitted a medium catalogue to a fair attendance of buyers. For most of the lines on offer there was moderate competition, and the bulk of the catalogue was cleared at prices on a par with late quotations Values ruled as under :—: —

Oats. — During the past week sales have been confined for the, most part to prime milling and choice seed lines. Ihe export demand has been extremely slack, and it has l>een impossible to efToct large sales in this direction. Quotations Seed lines. Is lid to 2s ; choice kinds, to 2s 3d ; prime milling, Is 9^d to Is 10$ d ; good to best feed, Is 8d to Is 9d , discolored and medium, Is Gd to Is 7d per bushel (sacks extra)

Wheat — For milling quality the market is unchanged, millers' requirements l>eing confined to lines of choice cfuality, while medium sorts arc neglected. Fowl wheat is offering more freely, and at a slight reduction on late quotations. Quotations: Prime milling, 3s lid to 4s 2d ; medium, 3s 6d to 3s 10d ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 3s to 3s 5d ; broken and damaged, 3s to, 3s 2d per bushel (sacks extra).

Potatoes — The market continues to be fairly well supplied with prime Derwcnts, but with a steady local demand stocks have not accumulated to any oxtent, and late values are well maintained. Quotations : Best Derwents, £3 10s to £3 15s ; others, £3 to £3 10s per ton (bags in).

Chaff. — The market is poorly supplied with prime quality, and all such coming forward Is readily emitted. Medium sorts have not the same attention, but are saleable at proportionately lower values. Quotations : Prime oaten sheaf, £3 12s 6d to £3 17s 6d : medium to good, £3 to £3 10s ; inferior and straw chaff, £2 to £2 15s per ton (bags extra >. Turnips. — We q,uote : Best swedes, 20s to 21s per ton (baggod, bags in) ; 15s to 16s per ton loose (ex truck,).