AUCTION PRICES.
Sales are reported at the following rates this week:—Potatoes, £2 to £2 10/ ton; prime onions, £3 to £3 10/; poor, 30/ to 40/; picklers, 6/ to 7/ cwt; kumaras, 3/G to 5/; pumpkins, 2/ to 2/6; maize, 2/1U bush; pie melons, 1/ to 1/6 cwt; prime dairy butter, IOJd to lid lb; pastry butter,. 6d to 7d; keg, 6d; milled, Sid; factory, lid to 1/1; eggs, 1/6 to 1/7 dozen; dairy cheese, 3d to 3|d lb; factory, 4id to 5d Fruit: Prime cooking apples, 3/ to 4/ case; ordinary, 2/ to 2/6; dessert do., 4/ to 6/; medium do., 1/6 to 3/; passion fruit, 6/- pears, Beurre Diel, 2d to o:l&; Beurre Clairgeau, up to 5d lb; Napoleons, id to 'id; extra choice grapes. 1/ to 1/2 lb; ordinary do., !id to 7d; outdoor, 3d to 4au lb; lemons, 2/6 to 3/6 case; tomatoes, (id to- 1/6 box; Cape gooseberries, 3d to J^u lb' Island oranges, C/ case. The Upolu arrived with a moderate cargo of fruit to a bare market. Poultry market firm; pigs easier.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 86, 13 April 1899, Page 2
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