COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 124, 26 May 1900, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs Arthur and Gorrie report the following prices:—Southern, table potatoes, £3, £3 10/! local, 37/0, £2 5/; kuruaraa, £5 10/, £7; onions, £4 15/, £0; pumpkins, £3, £5; citron melons, £1 167. £2 5/; fresh butter. lOd, 10 Jd; eggs, 1/tO, 2/; cheese, 3Jd, 4a; bacon, -l_tl, s}d: hams. sd, 6id; apples, 0/0, 9/; passion fruit, 4d,4}d; tomatoes, 2d, 3d; guavas, 2d, 2Jd; pears, 3^d, 4d; table fowls, 1/0, 2/; hens and young fowls, 1/, 1/4; ducks, 1/7, 2/; rabbits, 1/4 per pair.

Messrs A. Tooman and Co. report fair eales at the following prices this week:— Potatoes, £3 5/ to £3 10/ per ton; local do., £2 to £3; onions, id lb; kumaras, 5/ to 7/ cwt; pumpkins, 2/6 to 3/0 cwtj carrots, 25/ to 30/; maize. 2/0 bushel: fresh dairy butter, Gd to 9d lb; factory, Bid to lOd; pastry, Gid to 7d; keg, Gd to 7d; spring milled 9d; eggs, 1/8J to 1/10 doss; bacon, 4d to old; hams, Od to 7d; farmers' cheese, 4d lb.; factory, Od; loaf, Gd. Fruit: Superior apples, 12/ to 13/3 case; good, 6/ to 8/; inferior, 2/0 to 8/6; lemons, 8/ to 0/; passion fruit, 10/ to 14/; grapes. 7d to 1/ lb; Cape gooseberries, 4}d to Od; walnuts. 4jd to Cd. Poultry Poor fowls, 9d to 1/2; fat young fowls, 1/3 to 1/8; roosters, 1/3 to 2/; turkey gobblers, 3/0 to 6/0; hens, 2/3 to 3/4. Young pigs, 8/ to 8/.

Mr J. Jones reports prices as follows:— Butter, Sid to lOd; eggs, 1/8 to 1/10J doz; keg butter, Old to 7}d; box do., 7id to BJd; cheese, 4jd to s?d; hams, Gd to Gid; green, s*d to 64d; lard, 4id to 4Jd; rabbits, to Od; hares. 1/0 to 1/10. Poultry: Roosters, 1/5 to 2/2; ducks, 1/5 to 1/11; hens, 1/ to l/o; turkeys, 2/6 to 3/4; gobblers, 5/ to 0/4. Piss, 5/5 to 11/4; potatoes, £3 2/0 to £o 10/ ton; onions, 5/ to 5/10 cwt; pumpkins, 2/5 to 4/ cwt; melons, £2 13/6 per -ton; kumaras, 3/6 to 7/6 cwt. Fruit: Passions 84d doz. Oats, _/3 to 2/4 bushel; maize, 2/5 to 2/6; wheat, 2/5 to 2/8; bran, £4 10/ ton; sharps, £5; chaff, £2 5/.

Messrs Alex. Aitken (Limited) Report — Potatoes, Hobarts. £3 5/ to £3 10/; onions, 4/6 to BMckters, 11-! pumpkins, 3/fi to B/J French beans, 1/ to 1/4 pock; oats, 2/4 to 2/5; maize, 2/6; wheat, 2/3 i bran, £4 10/, sharps, £5 5/; chaff, 55/ to 65/; factory butter, lOd; farmers', prime, lOd; keg, 61d to 16; fresh eggs, 1/10 to 1/11; coast, 1/9; pickled, 1/1 to 1/4; hams, Drakes, 7d; farmers', lid; bacon, factory, Bid to fad; farmers', 4_d to sd; honey, bulk 3^l, cheese, factory, 43d to sd; farmers , 4d to 4Jd: rabbits, 1/4 to 1/6; hares, 2/ to Z/6. Fruitr-Good demand. Apples, best dessert, 7/6 to 9/; cookers, 6/6 to 7/6; pears, dessert, sd; cooking, 2Jd to 3d; lemons, 7/; passion fruit, 4d; Cape gooseberries, sd| ripe tomatoes, 2Jd: walnuts, s_d. Poultry -Roosters, 1/6 to 2/3; cockerels ?d to 1/; fat hens, 1/8 to 1/9; poor, 9d to 1/; ducks, 1/8 to lAO! geese, 1/10 to 2/3; turkeys, gobblers, 6/ to 6/6; hens, 4/3 to 5/; poor 2/3 to 2/6. Pigs, 4/6 to 0/6; stores, 8/6 to 10/; dressed pork, 2*d.

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