Commercial
PRODUCE Messrs. Donald Reid and Co., report:We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce on Monday. • Oats.—Prime milling Cartons are in good demand, and sparrowbills of the same grade are saleable at quotations. Shippers are in the market for A and B grades, but require consignments to be well up to sample. Lower grades are in fajjr demand locally. Prime milling, 2s 24d to 2s 3d; good to best feed, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; inferior to medium, Is 9d to 2s per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. Velvet and velvet ear meet with good inquiry, the latter being at present most favored. Prime Tuscan is in rather better demand, and of this class a fair quantity has been sold during the past week. Fowl wheat is plentiful, and meets moderate demand. Prime milling velvet, 4s to 4s 2d ; velvet ear, 3s 9d to 3s lOd; Tuscan, 3s 6d to 3s 8d ; best whole fowl wheat, 3s 4d to 3s sd; medium to good, 3s Id to 3s 3d ; broken and damaged, 2s 6d to 3s per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. —The market is well supplied.' Only prime lots are readily placed, and these only at a reduction on late values. Best table, £3 5s to £3 10b; choice, to £3 12s 6d. Medium quality meets slow sale at £2 10s to £3 per ton (bags included). WOOL Stronach, Morris, and Co., Ltd., report for week ended Tuesday, July 29, as follows; Rabbitskins. We offered an exceptionally large catalogue at yesterday’s sale, the majority of the skins being winter bucks and does. Competition was very keen, and we topped the market with for a line of prime winter does. Prices all through were very firm at late rates. Quotations Prime winter does, to 40|d; good winter doss, 34d to 38d; prime winter bucks, to 28|d; good do, to 25|d; incoming winters, to 204-d; best autumns, to 19d ; early autumns, to 174 d; summers, to 144 d; springs, to 12d ; small, to 94d; best racks, to 13^-d; light racks, to 12|d; best silver greys, to 47d; winter blacks, to 40jd;-autumn blacks, to 28d ; fawns, to 23|d; hareskins, to 21d per lb. Catskins, 71>d to 13d each; opossum skins, 3s 6d to 7s 6d each. Horse hair, to 19d per lb. » Sheepskins. — Owing to the drop in tho London market, competition was very slack and prices showed a heavy decline all through. The half-bred skins suffered most, the drop in some instances being fully Id per lb. Quotations: Half-bred, to 8-|d; fine crossbred, to 8-kl; coarse crossbred, to 7|d; medium to good, 6d to 7d; best dead halfbred, 6fd to 7|d; crossbred, 54d to 6|d; medium, 34d to 4d; best merino, 7|d to B|d; medium to good, 54d to 6f d; lambskins, to 7£d.
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New Zealand Tablet, 31 July 1913, Page 29
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464Commercial New Zealand Tablet, 31 July 1913, Page 29
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