AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1896, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Butter: New Zealand Dairy Association, la wholeSale ; Anchor Brand, Is wholesale; first quality dairy, wholesale, Bd, retail, lOd; second quality, wholesale, sd, retail, 7d. Cheeese, 4.} dto sd. Fresh eggs, Is 3d per dozen wholesale. Is 6d retail. Lard, 4Jd. Bacon and hr. rs, bare sides, s£d ; equal numbers, 6d to 6Jd; hams, 6gd to 7d ; clothed, extra. Flour Market. — Flour: Wholesale, £10 10s: wheatmeal. £10 10s ; bran, £4; sharps, £5; oatmeal, 25'e, £13 10a. Grain.—Southern feed oats, 2s 2d, c.i.f.; sacks included, 2s 6d ox store ; fowl wheat, 3s 7d, sacks included ; old Southern milling wheat, 4s, ci.f. socks extra, new local and Southern, 3s 6d. sacks extra ; maize, 2s lid on wharf; pearl barley, £13 per tou wholeBale.

Coal and Firewood Market.—Many of the following quotation's are nominal: — Newcastle coal at yard, 28s to 30s ton ; Waikato, pb mines, 8s to 12s; town, 18s to 225; Taupiri, ab mine, 8s to I2s ; ab Auckland, steam, 20s; household, delivered, 24a to 25a. Firewood • Uncut, at wharf, cargo, 6s to 7s per ton ; delivered, 10s to 12*; cut, 13s to 16s.

Building Materials.—Prices are nominally as follows : —Timber : Boards and soantliog, undressed, 100 feet best, 13s ; medium, 10s ; second-class, 8s ; besb planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 15s; medium, 12s; second-class, 10s; rusticated weather-boards, first-class, 15s ; medium, 12s; second-class, 10s. Undressed boards, thick ; best, 10s bd ; medium, 8s 6d ; second-class, 6s; rough lining boards, _ inch, second-class, 5s 6d ; lining boards, planed, tongued and grooved, best, 14s 6d ; medium, lis 6d ; secondclass, 9s 6d ; boat boards, specially selected, 14s 6d for _ inch ; 14s for f inch. Kauri paliugs, 5 feet (sap), 9s; (heart), lis; ti-.rea rail, £3 10« per 100; purir, posts, Is to Is 6(1 each ; ahinglos, 13. per 1,000; Hobart palings, slb, 16b; 6Fb, 17s ; rails. 80s, selling quotations. Brick, 45a to 55s per 1,000. Drain pipes, at works, 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000; 2Jin, 70s ; 3in, 90s ; 4in, 130s ; 6in, 30a per 100 ; 3in sockeb pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each; 4in, 6d ; 6in, 8d ; Is 6d ; 12in, 2s 3d ; 15in, 3s 6d; 18in, 4s 6d ; 21in, 8s ; 24in, 21s.

Manures. — Bonedust and boneflour, Sydney, £5 10s to £6, according to quality; Auckland, £6 ; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included.