AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.
Farm and Dairy PRODucn.-Butter, factory. Is; wholesale, Is 2d; first quality dairy, wholesale, lOd ; retail. Is ; second quality. 3d ; wholesale, 10d retail; cheese, dairy, 3Jd to 4d, factory, 4Jd ; freah egg 3, Is per doz wholesale. Is 3d retail; lard,4Adtosd lb; hams and bacon (Canterbury), 6sd.
Floor Market.—Flour : First quality, £11 103; second quality, £11 j wheatmeal. £11 10s; bran, £3 15s ; sharps, £3 ISs; cabin bread, £15 ; ontmeal,2b's, £19 ; Southern oats. 2a to2s2d per bushel; fowl wheat, 3s 2d ; prime milling wheat, new local, 3s 9d; old Southern, 359d.t0.15; maize. Isßd parcels on wharf; potatoes. £2 6s to £3 ; pearl barley. £15. Coal and Firewood Market.—Manyof the following quotations are nominal:—Newcastle coal atyard,2B3 to 30s ton; Bay of Islands, at mines 133 ; at yards. 24a ; steam. 24s :house, dolivered, 303: Waikato, atminos. Bs. 12s: town. 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine, Bs, 12s; at Auckland, steam. 17s 6d; household, delivered. 24s to 255. Firewood : Uncut, at wharf, cargo, 6s to 7s per ton ; delivered. 10a to 12s; cut, 14s to 16s
Building Materials.—Prices are us follow at present:—Timber: Boards and scantling100ft best, 12s; medium, 9b ; 2nd-class, 7s; best planed, tongued and grooved, flrst-claes. 11a; medium, 11s; 2nd-clußs, 9e; rusticated weather boards, first-class. 14s: medium, lls; secondclass, 10f. New Zealand palings, 6ft (sap,) 9s: (heart), Ils6d: ti-tree rails. £3 10s por 100; purii-l posts, £b; ahinsrles. 11s to 16a per 1.000; Hobart palings. sft, 13s; 6ft, 19s; Hobartrails, 80s, scllint? quotations. Bricks, 4Cs ososper 1,000. Drain pipes, at works: Kindrain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000: 2£ia. 70s; 3m, 90s: 4in, 1303 : 6in, 30s por 100; 3in socket 2ft lengths, 6ii each; 4in, 7d ; 6in, 9d: Is 6d ; 12ln, 2s3d;lsin. 3s6d; 18in, 4s6d; 21in, 8»; 24in, 12s.
Manures.-Bonodust.Sydney. £610stO £710s, according; to quality, bom-flour, £7 to £8; Auckland, £7; Long; Island ftuano, £4 10s, tings included: superphosphate, first quality, £7 to £7 10s ; second quality, to £6 63 £6 10i.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1892, Page 2
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323AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1892, Page 2
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