AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1898, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Butter : New Zealand Dairy Association, Is wholesale; Anchor Brand. Is wholesale; first quality dairy, wholesale 7d, retail 9d; second quality, wholesale sd; cheese, factory, 4Ad to lid; fanners', 3kl to id ; fresh eggs, 9d~ per dozen wholesale, Is retail : lard, !jd ; bacon and hams, bare sides, Td ; eqvial numbers, 7^d ; hams, B.id to !)d; clothed, id extra.

Flour Market. — Flour, wholesale, £12; wheatmeal, £12 ; bran, 1001b sacks, £1 ; KiOlb sacks, £3 17s (Id; sharps, 2001b sacks, M ; oatmeal, £12 10s per ton 2o's.

Grain.—Oats, ex wharf, 2s id ; fowl wheat, 4s, sacks included ; old Southern milling wheat, 4s 3d. sacks extra : maize, 2s 5d (ex wharf) ; old local milling wheat. Is 3d, sack extra.

Potatoes.—Potatoes : Kidneys and Hobarts. £5 to £5 10s.

Coal and Firewood Markets.—Many of the following quotations are nominal .-—Newcastle coal at yard, 2Ss 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, 2-is to 255. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf, cargo. 7s to'Jston; delivered, 12s to lls: cut, 13s to lUs.

Building Materials.—Prices are nominally as follows:—Timber: Boards and scantling, undressed, 100 ft best, 14s; medium, 10s Gd; second-class, Ss Cd ; best planed, tongucd and grooved, first-class, lCs; medium, i2s (id; second-class. Ids (id; rusticated weather-boards, first-class. Mis; medium, 12s Gd ; second-class, 10s 6d. Undressed boards, lin thick, best, 11s 6rt; medium, 0s : second-class, (is Gd; rough lining boards, fin, second-class, 6s; lining boards, planed, tongued and grooved, best, 15s Gd; medium, 12s; second-class. 10s; boat boards, specially selected, 15s (id for lin ; Ms (id, for fin. Kauri palings, o feet (sap) !)s, (heart) 11s; ti-tree rail, £3 10s ocr 100; puriri posts, Is to Is tid each; shingles, 13s per 1,000; Hobart palings, sft, 16s; 6ft, 17s; rails, 80s; soiling quotations. Dry pressed bricks, 52s Cd per 1.000; ordinary brick, 50s per 1,000; fire bricks, 21in £8, and 3in £9, per 1,000; lire clay, 60s per ton; hydraulic lime, 4s per 3 bushel bag. Drain pipes, at works, 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths, 50s per 1,000; 2Mn, 70s; 3in, 90s; 4in, 130s; 6in, £15 per 1,000; 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 7d each ; -tin, 9d ; Gin, Is; 9in, 2s ; r2in, 3s; loin, 4s Gd ; ISm, Os : 21in, Us; 24in, 15s.

Manx'res.—Bonedustand boneflour: Sydney, £6 to £0 IDs; according to quality : Auckland, £7 ; Long Island guano, £4 10k, bags included.

Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.'s (New Zealand Drug Company, Limited) Westfield manures price list, season 1897 :— ITon. £ s. (1. " A'" Superphosphate (total phosphates 40 per cent., soluble 'A'2'Sl percent., U per cent, ammonia) 5 2 C "B" Superphosphates (total phosphates 31 per cent., soluble 2S per cunt.), 2ewt sacks 4 3 G "C" Superphosphate (total phosphates 4G per cent., soluble 15 per cent.), 2cwt sacks ..490 Bonedust (pure) steamed 6 15 0 Bonedust (pure) green G 15 0 Bonedust and Blood 0 5 0 Special Koot Manure 7 00 Special Grass Manure "A" (For Top Dressing) C 10 0 Special Grass Manure "B" (for Permanent Pasture) 6 10 0 Special Potato Manure 7 00 Special Turnip Man tiro (3 10 0 Special Rape Manure .. .. ... 610 0 Special Corn Manure 6 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 Man lire 7 10 0 Special Sugar Beet Manure .. .. 8 10 0 Sulphate of Ammonia 14 0 0 Coral Quean Guano, 2cwt. sacks (G3 per cent, phosphate of lime) .. .. .. 415 0 Kainit, original sacks about 2cwt .. 4 10 0 Nitrate of Soda (original sacks about 2cwt), llsper cwt Muriate of Potash, original sucks about 2cwt 16s per cwt Sulphate of Potash, original casks about 2cwt 0 18 0 Sulphate of Iron, original casks about 3c\yt .. .. lOspcrcwt. Special Garden Manure, 141b hags.. lsGd each Fowl Grit, 141b bags, coarse medium or fine Is 6d each Discount less 24- per cent, for cash. Prices subject to alteration without notice.