AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 256, 4 November 1897, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Butter: New Zealand Dairy Association, lOd wholesale; Anchor Brand, lOd wholesale; first quality dairy, wholesale Gd, retail &1; second quality wholesale 4d, retail Gd; cheese, Hd to 5d ; fresh eggs, Gd per dozen wholesale, 8d retail; lard, 4id; bacon and hams, bare sides, 7d ; equal numbers, 7id; hams, B.ld to 9d; clothed, id extra.

Flour Market.—Flour, wholesale, £12 10swheatmeal, £12 10s; bran, 1001b sacks, £3 15s; 1601b sacks, £3 12s 6d; sharps, 2001b sacks. £3 15s; oatmeal, £14 per ton 25's. Grain.—Southern feed oats, 2s 7d ex store ; seed Tartars and Duns. 3s 3d ; Seed Sparrowbills, 2s 8d to 2s 9d; fowl wheat, 4s, sacks included; Southern milling wheat, 4s 6d, sacks extra; maize, 2s: seed maize 2s 2d ex store, Potatoes. — Southern table, £3 5s per ton, ex store.

Coal and Firewood MARKETS.-Many of the following quotations are nominal:—Newcastle coal at yard, 28s. to 30s ton ; Waikato, at mines, 8s to 12s; town, 18s to 225; Taupiri, at mine, Ss to 12s ; at Auckland, steam, 20s ; household, delivered, 2is to 255. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf, cargo. 7s to 9s ton ; delivered, 12s to lls; cut, 13s to lGs.

Building Materials.—Prices are nominally as follows:—Timber: Boards and scantling, undressed, 100 ft best, Us; medium, 10s Gd; second-class, Ss Gd; best planed, tongued and grooved, lirst-class, lGs; medium, 12s (id; | second-class, 10sGd; rusticated weather-boards, i lirst-class, lGs; medium, 12s Gd; second-class, 10s Gd. Undressed boards, Am thick, best, 11s Gd ; medium, <)s ; second-class, Gs Gd; rough lining boards, gin, second-class, 6s; lining boards, planed, tongued and grooved, best, los Gd; medium, 12s; second-class, 10s; boat boards, specially selected, los Gd for ttn ; 14s Gd, for fin. Kauri palings, 5 feet (sap) 9s, (heart) lls; Vi-tree rail, £3 10s per 100; puriri posts, Is to Is Gd each; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, oft, lUs; Oft, 17s; rails, 80s; selling quotations. Dry pressed bricks, 52s (id per 1,000; ordinary brick, 50s per 1,000; fire bricks, 2Ain £8. and 3in £9, per 1,000 ; lire clay, GOs per ton ; hydraulic lime, 4s per 3 bushel bag. Drain pipes, at works, 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000; 2Ain, 70s; 3in, 90s; 4in, 130s; 6in, £15 per 1,000; 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 7d each ; din, 9d; Gin, l-o; Din, 2s ; 12in, 3s; loin, 4s 6d; ISm, Gs; 21in, lls: 24in, los. Manures.—Bonedust and boneflour: Sydney, £6 to £0 10s; according to quality : Auckland, £7 ; Long Island guano, £4 10s, bags included. Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.'s (Xew Zealand Drug Company, Limited) Westfleld manures price list, season 1597 :— 1 Ton. £s. d. "A" Superphosphate (total phosphates 140 per cent., soluble 32-34 per cent., 1£ ' per cent, ammonia) " 5 2 6 i "B" Superphosphates (total phosphates 31 per cent,, soluble 2G per cent.), 2cwt sacks 43G "C" Superphosphate (total phosphates 46 per cent., soluble 15 per cent.), 2cwt sacks 490 Bonedust (pure) steamed 7 0 0 Bonedust (purej green 7 0 0 Bonedust and Blood 0 5 0 Special Root Manure 7 0 0 Special Grass Manure "A" (For Top Dressing) 6 10 0 Special Grass Manure "B" (for Permanent Pasture) G 10 0 Special Potato Manure 7 0 0 Special Turnip Manure G 10 0 Special Rape Manure 6 10 0 Special Corn Manure G 10 0 Special Maize Manure 7 0 0 Special Orchard Manure "A" (for young trees) 7 10 0 Special Orchard Manure "B" (for fruit formation) 7 10 0 Special Clover Manure G 10 0 Special Onion Manure 7 10 0 Special Sugar Beet Manure .. .. 810 0 Sulphate of Ammonia 14 0 0 Coral Queen Guano, 2cwt. sacks (G3 per cent, phosphate of lime) 4 15 0 ICainit, original sacks about 2ewt .. 4 10 0 Nitrate of Soda (original sacks about 2cwt) 14spercwt Muriate of Potash, original sacks about 2cwt lGspercwt Sulphate of Potash, original casks about 2cwt 0 18 0 Sulphate of Iron, original casks about 3c\yt lOspercwt Special Garden Manure,'l4lb bags.. Is Gd each Fowl Grit, 141b bags, coarse medium or fine Is 6d each Pure linseed Oil Cake, fine crushed, or if required, rough crushed, or in whole cake, liewt, sacks (per ton) .. .. 8 0 0 Discount less 2i per cent, for cash. Prices subject to alteration without notice.