AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 89, 16 April 1896, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Mr R. Arthur reports good business a*> the following ratea :—Potatoes, £4 5a to £4 10a per ton ; cow, do., £3 ; onion., £7 per bon ; carrots, 2a 6d to 3s 6d cwt ; kumeras, 7s cwt; pumpkins, 5s 6d to 6a 6d ; marrows-, 4a 6d to ss; old wheat, 4a to 4s 3d ; fowl wheat, 3s 6d to 3** 9d ; oabs, 2a to 2a 2d ; maiza, 3s 4d to 3a 6d ; sharp*, 4a 9(1 to 5a ; bran, 3s 9d to 4a; chad, £3 10 to £3 15s por per ton. Fresh butter, 8^(1 to 9£d ; keg bubter, 6£d to 7d ; paatry, do., o\d to 6d ; losf cheese, 4Jd to 5d ; farmor'a make, 3^d to 1d ; egga. la Id to Is 2d dozen ; ham, Canterbury, l\d to 8d : local, 6^d to 7d ; bacon, Canterbury, b\d to 7d : local, 5Ad to 6d ; honey in section, 3a 6d to 4a dozen ; in bulk, 2^d to 3d lb. Fruit : Dessert applea, 3s 6d to 5a ; cooking apples, 2a 6d to 3a 6d ; peara, If dto 2^d lb ; passion fruib, I\d to 2§d per dozen ; Cape gooseberries, 4d to 4£d lb : walnut^, 4Jd to s£d ; lemons, Q_d to lid ; grapes, s£d to 6_d; tomatoes, ljd to 2d. Mr Alex. Aitke-n report, good business all round. Potatoes, £4 5a- to £4 10a ton ; cow ditto, £2 10s to £5 ; kumeras, 4s 6d to 6s 6d cwt; pumpkins, 5a 6d to 6s 6d ; mangolds, £2 per ton; carrots, -£2 to £2 10s ; marrows, 2s to 2s 6d cwb; melons, 2s to 2s 6d ; onions, fd to Id ib ; fowl wheab, 3s 7d to 3a 9d ; oats, 2a 3d ; maize, 3a 3d ; bran, 4a to 4s 6d ; sharps, 4a 6d ; chafl', £2 15s to £3; baled hay, £4 to £4 10a; fresh dairy butter, 7d to lOd ; keg, b_d to 7d; pastry, s£d to fid; Taranaki roll, 9_d ; doi bulk, 9d ; factory loaf cheeße, 5d ; large sizes, 4d ; farmera' make, 24d to 'i_d ; Southorn hums, 7d ; do. bacon, 6d to 6£d ; local hams. 6d ; do. bacon, 4d to si-i ; honey in Rection, 3s to 3s 6d dozen ; bulk, 2-J|d to 31b ; egga, la 2d to la 6d dozen. Fruit .- Deaeerb apples, 3a to 5s ; cooking ditto, 2s 6d to 3« 6d ; peara, l^d to 2|d lb ; cooking, l^d to lfd ; walnuts, s_d ; Capo goopeborriea, 3^d to 4d ; paesion fruit, 2d to 2£d ; lemona, lOd to Is; quincea, gd to lid ; indoor grapes, 7d to lid lb ; outdoor, 2id to 3d ; tomatoes, l_d bo Id lb.