PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 16 July 1903, Page 13

PRODUCE.

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Invercargill prices current :— Wholesale— Butter (farm) 8d ; butter (factory), bulk, 9id ; pats, 9|d cash, lOd booked. Eggs, Is 3d per dozen. Cheese (factory) 6id Hams, 9d. Potatoes, £3 10s per ton (bags weighed in). Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chafi, £3 per ton. Flour £10 to £11. Oatmeal, £10 10s to £11. Bran, £4 10s' Pollard, £6 10s. Retail — Fresh Butter, 10d" Butter (factory), pats, Is. Eggs, Is 6d per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, 5s per cwt. Flour : 2001 b, 22s ; 501 b, 6s 3d. Oatmeal • 501 b 6s 6d ; 251 b, 3s 6d. Pollard, 10s per bag. Bran, 5s 6d. Chaff, 2s. "*- Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin reports :—Wholesale prices only— Oats: Milling, Is 9|d to Is lOd; feed, Is 6d to Is 9jd. Wheat : Milling, 3s 7d to 4s Id ; fowls' wheat, 3s to 3s sd. Potatoes : Derwents, £4 5s • seed kidneys, £3 10s to £4 10s. Chaff : i£3 to £3 12s 6d. Straw : Pressed wheat, 30s ; oaten 35s ; loose, £2. Flour : Sacks, £10 ; 501 b £10 15s ; 251 b, £11. Oatmeal : 251 b, £10. Pollard, £5 15s Bran, £4. Butter : Dairy, 8d to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese : Factory, 6d ; dairy, s£d. Eggs, Is 9d. Onions : Melbourne, £5 ; Christchurch, £4. Messrs. Stronach, Morris and Co., report as follows : Oats. — Market rather weaker, and shippers not operating. Good feed, or B grade oats, Is 7d to Is 8d ; superior to medium, Is 3d to Is 6d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — A very dead market. Prime milling, to 4s 2d, with a preference for velvet ; whole fowl wheat, 3s to 3s 2d. ; other sorts, 2s 6d to 2s lOd per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes.— ln short supply, and a hardening market Best, £4 5s to £4 15s. Chaff.— Heavy consignments of all sorts. Prime, £3 7s 6d ; medium, £3 ; inferior, 30s to 45s per ton. Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. (Limited) report : — We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a large catalogue to a full attendance of buyers. Competition throughout was rather slack, and many of the lots on offer had to be passed in. Values ruled as under :—: — Oats. — The market continues to be very dull, and without any export demand it is impossible to effect sales of any importance. Even at a reduction on present quotations buyers cannot be tempted to operate largely without actual orders Milling and seed lines have some inquiry, but at slightly /educed rates. We quote : Prime milling, is 8-£ dto Is lOd ; good to best feed, Is 7d to Is 8d ; inferior and medium, Is 3d to Is 6^d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat — There is little alteration to report. Millers' requirements are easily supplied with first quality, and for medium, sorts there is little demand. Fowl wheat has been offering more plentifully, and at slightly lower values. We quoto : Prime milling, 4s to 4s 2d • medium to good, 3s Hji to 3s lOd ; whole fowl wheat, 3s to 3s 2d ; broken and damaged, 2s 6d to 2s lOd per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. — Consignments from Canterbury have kept the market fairly well supplied. There is strong inquiry for prime Oamaru Derwents and for good kidneys and other seed sorts. Values are firm at late quotations. We quote : Best Derwents, £4 to £4 5s ; medium, £3 10s to £3 15s ; best seed kinds, £4 5s to £5 • others, £3 10s to £4 per ton (sacks in). Chaff.— The market is heavily supplied, and, with the exception of very prime quality, all sorts are decidedly easier. Choice lots still ha\e a good demand at prices about on a lev<?l with late quotations, but medium quality is difficult to quit even at some deduction in value. We quote : Best oaten sheaf, £3 to £3 7s 6d • choice, to £3 10s ; medium to good, £2 10s to £2 17s 6d ; straw chaff, inferior and light, £1 15s to £2 5s per ton (bags extra). Turnips.— We quote : Best swedes, 15s to 16s 6d per ton (loose, ex truck).