PRODUCE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 14 November 1907, Page 17

PRODUCE

/ Wellington, November 11. — The High Commissioner ' cabled from London on November 9 as follows :— Mutton. — The market is steady. Shipments now arriving' are ?ery small. Canterbury brands, 3-Jd ; North Island, 3|d ; light-weights, 3|d. Lamb".— The market is slightly weaker, with less demand. -New Zealand stocks on hand are light. Canterbury brands, s^a ; other than Canterbuty, sd. "Beef .—The market is steady, the demand being- chiefly for forequarters. Average prices, 3£d and 2fd for hind and forequarters respectively. Butter. — The market is steady, without animation. The average price realised throughout the week was 122s per cwt. In choicest New Zealand brands the stocks are almost exhausted. Danish butter, 126s ; Siberian, 112s ; Argentine, 120s. ' • ' _ Cheese. — The market is cyuiet. There is no alteration in prices to report. Hemp.— The market is quiet, with moderate inquiry at rates cabled last week. Wheat.— -New Zealand long-berried, 42s 6d ; shortberried, 41s 6d for 4961 b, ex granary. The market is quiet, but steady. Invercargill Prices Current : — Wholesale— Butter, , (farm), 7d ; .separator, Bd. Butter (factory), pats, Is o£d. Eggs, lOd per dozen. Cheese, 7d. Hams, 9d. Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chaff, £5 10s to £6. Flour, £14 10s to £15 10s. Oatmeal, £17 10s to £18s. Bran, £5 15s. Pollard, £6 10s. Retail — Farm butter, 9d ; separator, ' lOd. Butter (factory), pals, Is 2d. Eggs, Is. Bacon, lOd. Bran, fis 9d. Pollard, 11s. Chaff, 3s 3d. Oatmeal, 501 b, 10s; 2511, 5s 3d. Flour, 200 ft, 31s; 1001 b, 16s; 501 b, 8s 6d,; 251 b, 4s 3d. Messrs. Donald Reid and Co., report as follows :— We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Tuesday. We submitted a representative catalogue to a good attendance of buyers, and ■ with the exception of potatoes cleared most of the lines on offer at satisfactory prices. Values ruled as - under :—: — Oats/— All lines on offer continue to "meet with good ~ demand at prices fully equal to late quotations. Prime bright samples are in most request, and short plump oats are readily saleable at quotations as fowl feed. We quote: Prime milling, to 4s ; good to best feed, 3s *10d to 4s; inferior and medium, 3s 7d to 3s 9d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.— More favorable reports from the Common- • wealjh, together with a slight slackening in the London marltet, has had -'a somewhat quieting influence here. Holders, however, are firm, and there is no change in prices to report. We quote : Prime milling, 6s to 6s 2d ; whole fowl wheat, 5s lo£d to 6s ; broken and damaged, 5s 3d to 5s 9d per bushel (sacks e.xtra). Potatoes.— Arrivals during the week have been exceptionally heavy, and as the shipping demand has fallen off, the market has become glutted. At our auction sale to-day bidding for all lots on offer was very slack, and it was impossible to effect sales unless at ,• a reduction of £2 to £3 per 'ton on prices obtained at our sale last Monday. Medium and inenor sorts were unsaleable. Unless the demand improves, we -fear that, with the large quantities forward,

the market will ease still further. ,We quote • Prime Derwents and' Up-to-dates, £3 17s 6d ' to- £4 ; good to best do, £3 12s 6d to £3 15s -; medium, £3 to £3 5s ; inferior, £2 to £2-^los per ton (sacks included). Chaff.— Consignments of late have geen, barely sufficient for late requirements, and "prices have hardened still further. Prime quality is readily - saleable on arrival at £6 10s to £6 15s per ton; medium is not in such strong request at from £6 to £6 7s 6d ; inferior has poor sale at £5 to £5 10s per ton (bags extra). Straw. — Fair supplies have been forward during the past week, and any arriving still meet with ready sale a.t — for oaten, £2 15s to £3 ;~ wheaten, £2 5s to £2 10s per ton ( pressed )t.) t . Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co. report :— - Oats.— Competition has* not been so keen during th& week, and with the good rains falling in Australia and locally prices have receded from id to Id per bushel. Quotations : Prime milling, 3s lid to 4s ; good to best feed, 3s lOd to 3s lid ; inferior to medium, 3s 7d to 3s 9d' per bushel, ex store (sacks extra). Wheat.— There is still very little ,offering,- but in sympathy with the decline in Australia, prices have receded from' Id to 2d per bushel here. • Prime milling, 6s to 6s Id ; medium (selling as fowl wheat), 5s lOd to 5s lid ; broken and damaged, 5s 3d to 5s 7d pelbushel, ex store (sacks extra). Chaff.— Prime oaten sheaf -*is- still very scarce, and is selling up to rates quoted last week. Anything not first class is harder to dispose of. Quotations : Prime oaten sheaf, £6 5s to £6 10s ; extra, to £6 15s ; medium' to good, £5 15s to £6 ; light and inferior, £4 15s to £5 lOs. Potatoes. — The market is swamped, and -there are absolutely no Buyers. Unless there is a demand from the north potatoes will go lower than they were some week's ago. Quotations : Best Derwents and Up-to-dates, £3 15s to <£,4 ; medium to good, £2 10s to £3 10s, wffh no buyers. Pressed Straw. — The market is still bare. Oaten, 55s to 60s ; wheaten, 47s 6d to 50s.