AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 146, 22 June 1899, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Farm and Dairy Produce.—Butter: Isew Zealand Dairy Association, Anchor Brar ■ and Crown brand 1/, wholesale; dairy butter, wholesale, 6d, retail Sd, second quality, 5d wholesale; cheese, tactorv 43d. to 5d wholesale; farmers 4d to 4Jd; fresh eggs 1/ per' doz en, wholesale, 1/3 retail; lard 5Jd; bacon and hams, bare sides 8d equal numbers Sd; hams Bid to 9d; clothed Jd extra. Flour Market.—Flour, local, wholesale, £7 15/ wheatmeal £7 15/, bran 1001b sacks £3 5/, 1601b sacks £3 2/6; sharps, 2001b sacks, £4 5/; oatmeal £9 per ton, Grain^Oafs VB, ? c.'if.: Southern dun oats 1/S to 1/10, c.i.f.; fowl wheat U*. to 2/6 ex store, sacks included; Southern milling wheat 3/, sacks extra; maize 2/ t°Cn/aff°— £% 15/ to £2 per ton at the: stasamples £4 to £4 10/ per — Prime samples Southern, £2 12/6, local £2 to £2 10/ per ton. Coal and Firewood Markets.— Many of ty,a following quotations are nominal:— Newcastir clal at yard, 28/ to 30/ ton; Westport 30/, Taupirl, best household delivered, 12 sacks to the ton-Tons 25/, discount 1/ for cash; half tons 13/, discount 6a; quarter tons 6/9, discount 3d tor cash hundredweights 1/6, no discount Picked steam, 12 sacks to the ton-Tons 22/, discount 1/ for cash; half tons 11/6, discount 6d for cash; Quarter tons 6/3, discount 3d for cash. Firewood: U?cut; at wharf, cargo 7/ to 9/ ton; delivered 12/ to 14/; cut 13/ to 16/. Building Materials.—Prices are nominally as follows: - Timber: Boards and scantling, undressed, 100 ft best, 14/; medfum 10/6 second class, 8/6; best planed, tongued and grooved, first class, 16/; medium 12/6; second class, 10/6; rusticated weather-boards, first class, 16/; medium, 12/6- second class, 10/6. Undressed boards Mn thick best 11/6; medium, 9/; second class 6/6;' rough lining boards Bin'second class 6/; lining boards, planed, tongued and grooved, best, 15/6; medium, 12/; second class, 10/; boat boards, specially selected 15/6 fo rim, 14/6 for |in. Kauri oaltaßS sft, sap? 9/; heart, 11/; ti-tree rail £3 10/ per 100; puriri posts, 1/ to 1/6 each- shingles, 13/ pen 1000; Hobart palfnes sft 17/; 6ft, 19/; rails, 80/; selling quotations. Dry pressed bricks 52/6 per 1000- ordinary brick, 50/ per 1000; fire bricks 2iin, £B;.and 3in, £9 per 1000; fire clay 60/ per ton; hydraulic lime, 4/ per 3bushel bag. Drain pipes, at works, 21n drain tiles 7 12in lengths, 50/ per 1000; 2Jin, 70A 3in, 90/; 4in, 130/; 6in, £15 per 1000: Sin Rocket pipes, 2ft lengths, 7d each; 4in, 9d; 6in V; 9in. 2/; 12in, 3/; 15in, 4/6; 181 n, 6/; 21in, 11/; 241 n, 15/.

Kempthorne, Prosser ana Co.'s (New Zealand Drug Company, Limited) Westfield manures price list season 1899:fl s a 'A' Superphosphate (total phosphates 40 per cent., soluble 32.34 per cent., IS per cent, ammonia).. 5 10 0 'B' Superphosphate (total phosphates 31 per cent., soluble 26 per cent.), 2cwt sacks 4 86 'C Superphosphate (total phosphates 46 per cent., soluble 15 per cent.), 2cwt sacks 4 15 0 Bonedust (pure) steamed 7 00 Bonedust (pure) green 7 00 Bonedust and Blood ~ 610 0 Special Root Manure ............... 7 00 Special Grass Manure 'A' (for Top Dressing) ■.^.••;;'"V/ >-* 615 ° Special Grass Manure 'B' (for Permanent Pasture) 6 15 0 Special Potato Manure 7 00 Special Turnip Manure 615 0 Special Rape Manure 615 0 Special Corn Manure 'A (for green feed) 6 15 0 Special Corn Manure 'B' (for Wheat, Oats, Barley, etc.) 615 0 Special Maize Manure 'A' (for green feed) • ' Special Maize Manure *B' (for cob maize) ••• JIV/V" Special Orchard Manure 'A' (for young trees) 7 10 0 Special Orchard Manure 'B' (for fruit formation) 7 10 0 Special Clover Manure 6 15 0 Special Onion Manure 7 10 0 Special Sugar Beet Manure ........ 810 0 Sulphate of Ammonia ,••••«; Coral Queen Guano, 2cwt sacks (63 • per cent, phosphate of lime) 4 15 0 Surprise Island Guano, 2cwt sacks (47 per cent, phosphate of lime).. 816 0

Kainit, original sacks about lewt 4 7 6 Nitrate of Soda, original sacks

about 2ewt 14/<rwt Muriate of Potash, original sacks

about 2cwt , 16/cwt Sulphate of Potash, original sacks about 2cwt 16/cwt Sulphate of Iron, original sacks about 2cwt 10/ cwt Special Garden Manure, 141b bags..l/6each Fowl Grit, 141b bags.coarse medium

or fine 1/6 each Vita nor for Pot Plants, lib tins ... .6d each Linseed Oil Cake, line crushed, medium or whole cake, per ton 9 15 0 Discount less 2J per cent, for cash. Prices subject to alteration without notice Previous Lists now cancelled. Auckland, June 1, 1809.