AUCTION PRICES.
Sales are reported at the following rates this week:—Potatoes, prime fresh kidneys, £4 to £5 ton; stale parcels, £2 10/ to £3 10/; onions, Jd to 3d lb; maize. 3/ bushel; fowl wheat, 3/6; green peas, 3d to Gd peck; French beans, lOd peck; dairy butter, 7d to 8d; keg do., 4a to sd; factory Sd to lOd; eggs, 7id to 8d doz; dairy cheese 3d to 3id ]b; factory, -ttd lb; bacon, 6Jd to 7d; hams, 7d to 9d. Fruit: Market overstocked; local cherry plums, 2d to 2?d; local black plums, ljd to 2d; Sydney Japanese, 4/ to 5/; do. black, sd: apricots, 5d to Cd; Kentish cherries. Gd to 7d; black heart, 8d to Od; pears, Id to 2d lb; Sydney jargonelles, 8/ to 10/ case; local -apples, 4/ to e/: American do., 7/ to 12/; grapes, ]/ to 1/6; tomatoes, 5d to 6d lb; superior local peaches, 1/0 to 2/4 doz; ordinary do 74 to 1/3; Sydney do., 5/ case; lemons 5/ to 7/6; rail currants, Gid; gooseberries Ud to 2W; bananas, 1/2 to 2/; pines, 5/ to 8/ crate, Poultry: Ordinary fowls, 1/ to 1/4; fat tabie do., 1/ii; roo»tnrs, 2/; turkeys ?,/ to II; Koe?M, •if to 2/0; ducks, 1/3 to i/8Pigs, JO/ to VM',l, iiceordlng to size.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 302, 22 December 1898, Page 2
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213AUCTION PRICES. Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 302, 22 December 1898, Page 2
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