AUCTION PRICES.
. Sales at the following prices are reported this week:—Best fresh butter, Gd to /d per lb ;' medium, 5d to 6d per lb ; best keg, 6d per lb ; medium do., 3d to 4£d per lb ; e"gs, 6d to 6Jd per dozen ; cheese, 4d to 44d per lb; Southern bacon, 6d to 6_d per lb; hams, 8d to S|d per lb; local do., 5d to 7d per lb; Southern potatoes, £3 5s per ton; new kidney do., Id to l£d perlb; other sorts, id to Id per lb; Californian onions, ljdper lb. pumpkins, 3s'to 4s cwt; maize, 2s 3d to 2s 5d : oats. 2s 6d to 2s 7d; sharps £4 ton ; bran, £4. Fruit, dessert apples, 10s to lis case; cooking do., 9s to 10s; loquats, 2d to 2Ad lb ; tomatoes, 4d to 6d ; lemons, 4d to 6d; gooseberries, 3£d to 3|d lb ; small do., lid to 2id. Poultry, turkey gobblers 4s to 5s ; hen do., 2s to 3s 6d; ducks, is 7d to 2s • ducklings, 6d to is; ordinary fowls, Is 6d'to Is 7d; cockerels, Is 8d to $_■; 2i-; hens, with broods, 4s to 7s; chicks, 5d to lOd. Pigs, 8s to 12s.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 262, 11 November 1897, Page 3
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