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AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs Arthur and Gorrie's. weekly re-, port:—Southern table potatoes, £7 to £7 10/; local, £0 to £6 5/; Southern seed Derwents, £6 to £6 10/; kidneys, £7 to £8; new potatoes, Id lb; kumaras, £7 to £7 10/: onions, ljd to ljd; wheat, 4/1; bran, £4 15/; carrots, £115/; farmers' fresh butter, 9d to 1/; factory bulk, 112 dto 1/; salt butter, 7d to 9id; cheese, 3d to 4Jd; Southern bacon, 62d; hams, BJd; local bacon, 5d to 6d; hams, 6d to 7d. Fruit: Apples, best ,11 to 10/6; others, 5/ to 6/; Cape gooseberries, 4d to 4Jd; lemons, 21d to sd; oranges, 4/ to 5/; walnuts, 5d to 51d; fowls, 1/ to 1/4; table fowls, 1/6 to 1/10; ducks, 1/6 to 1/11; rabbits, 1/3 to 1/6 pair. j ..-;

Mr R. Arthur reports sales at the following prices khis week:—Southern potatoes, £7 5/ to £7 10/ ton, ex store; local potatoes, £5 to £6 10/; inferior, £3 10/- to £4 10/; new kidney do., id to lid lb; onions, lid tc lgd; others, id; red carrots, 1/9 to 2/3; white do., 1/6; pumpkins, 2/ to 3/6; fresh dairy butter, 8d to; lOd; prime keg, lid; eggs, 1/1 to 1/4 doz;.cheese, 4|d lb; Canterbury bacon, 6Jd to 7d; hams, BJd to 9d; local bacon^ sd; hams, 6Jd. Fruit': Dessert apples, 7/ to 9/ case; cooking do., 5/ to 7/; lemons, 2/ to 3/. Poultry: Turkey gobblers, 4/ to 5/6; hens, 1/10 to 3/; fat ducks, 1/7 to 1/10; others, 1/2 to 1/6; table roosters, 1/C to 2/4; ordinary fowls, 9d to 1/2.

Mr Alex. Aitken reports: — There is every indication of better times prevailing, All sales increasing every week. Kumaras very scarce; sold, up to £11 10/ ton. Canterbury Hobarts steady, 7/6 to 7/9, likely to rise; local, 6/6 to ./; .loi^al kidneys, 5/9 to 6/6; Canterbury !jcc<l Hobarts, 6/9 to 7/; kidneys, 7/ to 0/6; Early Rose, 11/ to 12/; Snowflakcs, 7/6; onions, best. £14 to £15; kumaras, 10/ to 11/6, scarce; pumpkins, 3/ to 4/; carrots, white,, 1/1 to 1/6; red, 1/8 to 2/2; maize, old, 2/10; new, 2/8; heated, 2/5 per bushel; butter, best dairy. 10d to lid; seconds, 8d; Taranaki butter, 10id to lid; rolls, 1/ to 1/1; kegs, best, 10id; pastry, 8d to Sd; eggs, 1/2 to 1/3; bacon, farmers', 6d.to 6Jd; hams, 7Jd; cheese, do., 3Jd to 4}d, scarce; honey, bulk, 2Jd;.sections, 3/b; apples, Tasmanian, 7/9 to 9/6; local desserts, 6/6 to 10/; seconds, 3/ to 4/9; lemons, aa to 6d doz; oranges, Poor Man's, 8d to 10d doz; St. Michael's, 4/ case; Sydney, sAto 5/6 case; bananas, bunches, 1/9 to 2/6; bunch cases, 1/9 to 3/; pineapples, 3/6. to 5/6 doz; passion fruit, 7/6 case; grapes,'l/, and 1/6' case; walnuts, 5d to 6d; charcoal, 3/ to 4/; turkeys, fowls and, geese rising; pigs, small. 3/-to 12/9 each; pork, rising, 3£d'.to 4d lb. . . ' , , ■',■ Mr J. Jones reports:—Butter, lOd to' lOJd; eggs, lid to 1/i; keg butter, 9d to lOct; cheese,' 4£d to 6td; hams, 6d to 71d; bacon, sjd to 61d; rolls, 4Jd to 51d; potatoes, £7 10/ kidney potatoes, £7 10/ to £9; onions, Ud to l|d;'pumpkins, 3/6; kumaras, 7/ to 9/6 cwt; carrots, £1 10/. Poultry: Roosters, 1/3 to 1/9;. hens, 1/1 to 1/5; geese, 2/3 t0.,3/; .ducks,, 1/3 to 1/s;,.'pissi-J/, to"9/10; oats, 2/S to 2/10; bran, £* t JO/;. sharps, £5 10/; maize, 2/6 to\ 2/10; chaff; £4 16/ to £5; ■ mandarins, 3/3 to &/; passion fruit, 4/ to 5/3;-lemons, 3id to "BJddoz.

Messrs Hall and Perkins report big sales. Apples, large clean fruit, 10/ to 13/; others, 6/9 to 9/; butter, dairy, 9d to llid; keg, 9d to lid, easy market; chaff wanted, worth £4 15/ ex store prime; other, '£4 to £4 10/; cheese, dairy, 3d to 4d; extra good, 4?. dto sd; carrots, 30/ to 35/ ex store, 25/ to 3*2/6 ex station white, red 5/ to 10/ dearer and wanted; eggs down this week, 1/ to 1/1, expect easier; honey, bulk, 2Jd to 3d; sections, 2/6 to "4/; kumaras, red, good order £8 to £10 per ton; lemons wanted, 3/ to 5/9 per case, 3d to 7d doz; maize, old, 2/6 to 2/9; new, 2/2 to 2/4, ex wharf; melons, citrons, £5 to £6.10/; pie, £4 to £5/; onions oi good sample are scarce, ±.id to £14; soft or growing, £6 to £10 per ton; potatoes are rirm at £7 10/ to £7 15/, Southern ; locals, £5 to £6 10/; seed, all varieties at low, prices; kidneys, 130/ to 160/, Derwents, 160/; pigs are wanted, young, 5/ to 8/; others, 14/ to 33/ each; poultry selling well; table roosters^ 1/3 to 2/4; young, 9d to 1/2; hens, 1/ tol/11; ducks, 2/ to 3/; turkey hens, 2/ to 3/1; gobblers, 3/ to 7/ each; hares, 2/6; rabbits, 2/ to 2/8 pair; pumpkins, 3/ to 3/6; mandarins, 5/b t0,.6/. ' ■ .'•: .: ~'' ■' ■ -■- ,

Messrs Arthur, Tooman and Co. report a busy week, all lines of produce finding ready sale. Potatoes, prime Southern, £7 to £7 10/; local, £7 to £7 5/; ordinary do., £5 to £6/6; seed do., £5 to £9 according to auality; onions, wholesale, £11 to £12 tonj small lots, 14/ cwt; carrots, 30/ to 35/ ton; Swedes, 30/ to 40/; pumpkins, 60/ to 70/; new maize, 2/6 "to 2/S bushel, ex store; 2/4 c.i.f.; fowl wheat, 4/ to 4/3; fresh dairy butter, lOct to y l/i; factory do., lid to 1/1; new keg, lOd to 1/ lb; old do., M to 9d; eggs, 1/3 to 1/3J; honey, tinned, 2d to 2Xd lb; section, 8/ to 3/6; prime local.bacon, 6d to 7d Jb; Southern do., 7d; hams, local, 7d to Ihd; Canterbury, S£d; lard, 4d to 4Jd; farmers' cheese, 4Jd to 4Jd; factory, 4*d; loaves, 5Jd. Fruit: Ordinary apples, o/ to 7/3; superior do., 7/6 to 9/; lemons, 4/ to 6A guavas, Id to 2id lb; passion fruit, 4/3 to 6/; mandarins, 4/3 to 5/9; marmalade oranges, ordinary cases, 6/6 to 7/; bushel cases, 9/6 to 10/. Poultry: Ordinary fowls, 1/ to 1/1; prime table, 1/6 to 2/; ducks, 1/8 to 2/3; prime turkey gobblers, .6/ to 8/; ordinary do. and hens, 2/ to 3/6. Pigs, 4/9 to 15/, according to size.

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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 166, 16 July 1898, Page 2

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AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS. Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 166, 16 July 1898, Page 2

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS. Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 166, 16 July 1898, Page 2

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