AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.
Messes A. Tooman and Co, reporb good business at the following rates :—Pobatoea : Markeb very bare, and sold ab £3 15s to £4 per ton. Onions, £7 to £8 per ton, medium £4 to £5; pumpkins, £3 to £4; maize, now, ex-atore, 3a; oata, 2a 7d; wheat, 3a 8d; bran, £4; sharps, £5 10a ; baled hay, £4 10s ; chaff, £3 10a; carrots, 22s to 30s ; mangolds, 15s ; kumeraa, 8s to 9s; vegetables very plentiful. New potatoes, £d to Id lb. Butber markeb sluggish; factory, lOd to lid; separator, 7d be 9d ; Taranaki dairy, 6d bo 8d ; local, 7d to 9d ; local keg, prime, 6_d to 7d; medium, 4_d to sd; Taranaki fresh, potted, Bd. Eggs, 10_d to Is. dozen. Cheese, dairy, 3d to 4d ; factory, 4d to 4Jd,; loaf, sd. Local bacon and hams, 4d to 6d ; Canterbury, 6d to 7d ; section honey, 2s 6d to 3s 6d dozen ; bulk, 2jd to 3d per lb. Fruit-: Local apples, 8s to 9s; Hobart, 8s 6d to 12a ; local lemons, 6a bo 9a; Queensland pinea, 4s Id to 9* 6d per case ; mandarins, B=l to 9a 6d; oranges, Sydney, 2s 6d ; Island, 4s; local, 2s to 3s per case ; walnuts, 7d to 8d ; peanuts, 2Jd lb; Poultry in strong demand at present quotations. Mr R. Arthur reports sales ab the following rates :—Southern petotoes, £3 5a to £3 lbs ; seed potatoes, £3 15s to £4 ss; onions, fd to Id ; carrots, Is 3d to Is 9d cwt; mangolds, 10s to 15s per ton ; pumpkins, £2 to £3 10b ; wheat, 3s 9d to 4s bushel; oata, 2s 3d to 2a 6d ; maize, 2s 2d to2«6d; bran,, £4 sa; sharpa, £5 10a; chaff, £3 15a to £4; honey in section, 3a 6d dozen j in bulk, 2Jd lb. Froeh butter from 8d to lid ; beat keg, 6d to 7d ; medium, keg, 4d to 6d lb ; cheese, 3d to 4d; bacon local, 4d to s_d ; hams, 5d to 6Jd ; Southern sides, C^d to 6_d ; hama, 7d to 7Jd ; egga, lOd to la 3d per dozen. Fruit:. Apples, 8s to 10a 6d per case; dried apples, 2Jd to 3Jd ; lemons, 9s per case. Poultry : Turkey gobblers, 4a to 6a 6d ; hen do., 2s to 3s 6d ; geeso, 3s to 4a 6d ; ducka, 2s to 2s 8d ; cockerola, 2a to 2s lOd; ordinary fowla, Is to 2b.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 166, 16 July 1896, Page 2
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