SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 20 August 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current.— Wholesale — Butter farm, Bd. butter (factory), bulk, lOfd to Hid, pats, ll^d to lljd cash. Eggs, lOd per dozen. Cheese (factory), 6£d. Hams, 9d. Potatoes, £4 per ton (bags weighed in). Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chaff, £3 per ton. Flour, £9 10s to £10 10s. Oatmeal, £9 to £9 10s. Bran, £3 10s. Pollard, £4 10s. Retail— Fresh butter, lOd ; butter (factory), p-ats, Is l£d. Eggs, Is per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, 5s 6d per cwt. Flour : 200 ft, 21s ; 50ft, 6s. Oatmeal : 50ft, 5s 6d. 25ft, 2s 9d. Pollard, 8s per bag. Bran, 4s 6d. Chaff, Is 9d.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin, reports :—> Wholesale prices only— Oats : Milling, Is 9£d to Is lOd ; feed, Is 6d to Is 9^d. Wheat : Milling, 3s lOd to 4s 2d ; fowls' wheat, 3s to 3s 3d. Potatoes : Derwents, £4 5s ; seed kidneys, £3 10s to £4 10s. Chaff, £2 15s to £3 7s Cd. Straw : Pressed wheat, 30s ; oaten, 35s ; loose, £2. Flour : Sacks, £10 ; 50ft, £10 15s ; 25ft, £11. Oatmeal, j£9 10s. Pollard, £4 10s, Bran, £3 5s Butter: Dairy, 8d to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese : Factory, 6Jd ; dairy, sfd. Eggs, Is 4d. Onions : Melbourne, £5 ; Christchurch, £4.

Messrs Donald Reid and Co. (Limited) report :— We held our weekly auction sale of gram and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a full catalogue. There was a moderate attendance of buyers, who were not intent upon business. Competition was therefore somewhat slack, and a Huge proportion of the catalogue was passed in Values ruled as under :—: — Oats —For prime milling lines there has been fair demand at late quotations Feed sorts have not had strong inquiry, and are meeting with slow sale, buyers only operating to nil actual orders. Nearly all sales for shipment have been in B grade lines, which must be rigidly up to sample For lower grades, which are offering freely, the demand is ■very erratic. Quotations : Seed lines, Is lid to 2s 3d ; prime milling, Is 8d to Is 9|d ; good to best feed, Is 6£d to Is 74d ; inferior to medium, Is to Is 6d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat —The local market is poorly supplied with prime milling quality, which is the only sort in favor with millers. Medium milling lines are not in request, and only saleable as fowl wheat, for which there has been good demand at quotations. Quotations : Prime milling, 3s lOd to 4s 2d ; medium, 3s 5d to 3s 9d whole fowl wheat, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; broken and damaged, 2s 8d to 3s per bushel (sacks extra) Potatoes —The market has been well supplied, chiefly with good Derwents from Canterbury, which in most cases ha.\e found buyers at prices on a level with last week's rates Quotations : Best Derwents, £4 to £4 ss, prime Oamarus, to £4 7s 6d ; medium, £3 10s to £3 17s (id per ton (bags in). Chaff —The market is glutted, and for anything except choice quality sales cannot be effected at late quotations. Prime oaten sheaf commands some attention at prices little below late quotations, but medium and inferior isorts are a drug in the market, and sales can only be forced at a sacrifice in price. Quotations : Prime oaten sheaf, £3 to £3 5s ; good, £2 12s 6d to £2, 17s 6d ; inferior to medium, £1 15s to £2 10s per ton (bags extra). Straw.— Quotations : Best oaten straw (pressed), 30s ; wheat, 27s 6d per ton. Turnips.— Quotations : Best swedes, 15s to 15s 6d per ton (loose, ex truck).

Messrs. Stronach, Morris and Co., report for week ending -August 18 as follows :— Wheat.— Millers are doing very little buying, and are working almost entirely on northern parcels. There is better inquiry for fowl wheat. Prime milling, 3s lOd to 4s 2d ; medium do, 3s 5d to ,3s 9d ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; damaged do, 2s 8d to 3s. Oats.— Market lifeless and shippers doing practically ' othing. Seed lines, Is lOd to 2s 3d ; B grade, Is 7d to ]s 8d ; feed, Is 6d to Is 7d ; inferior, Is to Is 6d. Chaff.— Market overstocked. Prime oaten sheaf £3 to £3 5s ; good, £2 12s 6d to £2 17s 6d ; inferior' and medium, 35s to 50s per ton.

Potatoes.— Good Canterbury Derwents are plentiful. Market steady. Best Derwents £4 to £4 5s ; medium £3 10s to £3 17s 6d.