AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 202, 27 August 1896, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Fakm and Dairy Produce.—Bubber: New Zealand Dairy Association, la wholesale; Anchor Brand, la wholesale; firsb quality dairy* wholesale 9d, retail lid; second quality, wholesale 6d, retail Bd. Cheese, 4Ad to sd. Fresh eggs, 6d per dozen wholesales 8d retail. Lard, 4£d. Bacon and hams, bare sides, s£d; equal numbers, 6d to 6£d ; hatns, 6|d to 7d; clothed, £d extra. . Flour Market.—Flour, wholesale, £10; wheabmeal, £10; bran, £3155; sharps, £4 5a ; oatmeal, £11 bo £1110s per ton 25's ; Grain.—Southern feed oat*, 2s, 0.i.f.; sacks, included, 2s 4d ex store ; seed oafca, 2s 8cl; fowl wheat, 3s 7d, sacks included ; new local and Southern, 3a 6d, sacks extra; Southern seed wheat, 4a 3d, sacks included ; maize s 2s 6d bo 2s 7d on wharf; pearl barley, £12 10s per ton wholesale. Potatoes, £3 15s; Hobarb seed, £4. Coal and Firewood Market.—Many of the following quotations are nominal : — Newcastle coal at yard, 28a to 30a ton ; Waikato, at mines, 8s to 12s ; town, 18a to 22a ; Taupiri, ab mine, Ss bo 12s-; ab Auckland, eteam, 20s; household, delivered, 24s to 255. Firewood : Uncub, ab wharf, cargo, 9s to 10a ton ; delivered, 12s to 15s; cub, 13s to 16s. Building Materials-—Prices are nominally as follows :—Timber: Boards and scanbling, undressed, lOOfb best, 13a ; medium, 10s ; second-class, 8s ; beat planed, fcongued and groovod, firsb-class, 15s ; medium, 12s; second-class, 10s ; rusticated weatherboards, first-class, 15s ; medium, 12s ; seeond-claßß, 10s. Undressed boards, Mn thick } besb 10s 6d; medium, 8a 6d ; encond-class, 6s ; rough lining boards, gin, second-class, 5a 6d ; lining boards, planed, tongued and grooved, besb, 14s 6d ; medium, lls 6d ; second-class, 9s 6d ; boat boards, specially selected, 14s 6d for J inch ; 14s for g inch. Kauri palings, 5 feet (sap), 9s; (heart), lls; ti-bree rail, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, Is to Is 6d each; shingles, 13b par 1,000 ; Hobarb palinge, sfb, 16a; 6ft), 17fl; rails, 80s ; selling quotations. Dry pressed bricks, 52a 6d per 1,000 ; ordinary bricks, 50a per 1,000 ; fire bricks, 2£in £8, and 3in £9, per 1,000 ; fire clay, 60s per ton ; hydraulic lime, 4s per3-buahel bag. Drain pipes, ab works, 2in drain tiles, I2iu lengths, 508 per 1,000: 2>}in, 70s; 3in, 90s ; 4in, 130s; 6in, £15 per 1,000; 3in sockeb pipes, 2fb lengths, 7d each ; 4in, 9d ; 6in, la ; 9in, 2s; I2in, 3s; 15in, 4a 6d ; 18in, 6a ; 21in, lls ; 24in, 15s. Manures. — Bonedusb and boneflour; Sydney, £5 10a to £6, according to quality ; Auckland, £6 ; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included.