AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 166, 16 July 1896, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Bubber: New Zealand Dairy Association, Is wholesale; Anchor Brand, la wholesale; fireb quality dairy, wholeaale 9d, retail lid; second quality, wholesale 6d, retail Bd. Cheese, 4£d to sd. Fresh eggs. lOd per dozen wholeaale, Ib retail. Lard, 4sd. Bacon and hams, bare sides, s£d; equal numbers, 6d to 6Jd ; hams, \6Jd to 7i ; clothed, {A extra. Flour Market.—Flour, wholesale, £10; wheatmeal, £10; bran, £3 15a ; sharps, £5 ; oatmeal, £12 to £12 10s per ton 25's. Grain.—Southern feed oats, 2a 30, c.i.f.; sacks, included, 2a 6d ex store ; seed oats, 2s 9d ; fowl wheat, 3s 7d, sucks included ; now local and Southern, 39 6d, eacks extra; Southern seed wheab, 4s 3d, sacks inoluded; maize, 2s lOd bo 3s on wharf; pearl barley, £12 10s per ton wholesale. Coal and Firewood Market.—Many of the following quotations ore nominal : — Newcastle coal ab yard, 28s to 30a ton ; Waikato, ab mines, 8a to 12s ; town, 18s to 22s ; Taupiri, at mine, 8a bo 12a ; ab Auckland, steam, 20a; household, delivered, 24s to 25a. Firewood: Uncut, ab wharf, cargo, 6a to 7a ton; delivered, 10a to 12a; Out, 13s to 16s. Building Materials.—Prices are nominally as follows :—Timber: Boards and scantling, undressed, lOOfb best, 13s ; medium, 10s ; second-class, 8a; best planed, tongued and grooved, firsb-claes, 15s ; medium, 12s; second-class, 10a ; rusbicated weatherboards, first-class, 15a ; medium, 12s ; eecondclaaa,' 10a. Undressed boards, thick ; beßb 10a 6d ; medium, 8a 6d ; ancond-clasa, 6s ; rough lining boards, fin, second-clasß, 5a 6d ; lining boards, planed, tongued and groovod, beab, 14s 6d ; medium, 11a 6d ; second-class, 9a 6d ; boat boards, specially selected, 14s 6d for £ inch ; 14s for J inch. Kauri palings, 5 feet (sap), 9s; (heart), lie; bi-tree rail, £3 10a.per 100; pnriri posts, Is to Is 6d each ; shingles, 13* per 1,000; Hobarb palings, sfb, 16a; 6fb, 17s; rails, 80a ; selling quobabions. Bricks, 45a bo 55s per 1,000. Drain pipea, ab works, 2in drain biles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000: 2Jin, 70s ; 3in, 90s ; 4in, 130a; 6in, 30a per 100; 3in sockeb pipes, 2ft lengths, 6d each ; 4in, 6d ; 6in, 8d ; la 6d; 12in, 2a 3d ; 15in, 3s 6d ; 18in, 4a 6d ; 21in, 8a; 24in, 21a. Manures. — Bonedusb and boneflour; Sydney, £5 10s to £6, according to quality ; Auckland, £6 ; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included.