AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.
Messrs Arthur and Gorrie's report.— Southern table potatoes, £3 15/, £4; local, £3 10/; new kidneys, id, Id lb; kumaras, £6, £7;. pumpkins, £1 5/, £2; carrots, 25/, 35/; onions, lid, lid; fresh butter, Bd, lOJd; cheese, 3Jd, 4d; bacon, 4£d; cheese, 3d, 4d; eggs, i/8, 1/9; dessert apples, N. Spy, 7/, 9/ case;-boxes, 3/, 4/5; other sorts, 2/3, 3/; cooking, 3/, 5/ per case; boxes, 1/0, 2/; tomatoes, 2/4, 3/; C. gooseberries, 3Jd, 4d; lemons, 3/, 3/6; tree tomatoes, 1/6, 2/; grapes, Bd, 1/4; passion fruit, 5/1; table fowls, 1/9, 2/3; hens. 1/3, 1/7; ducks, 1A 2/1; rabbits, 1/4, 1/8 pair.
Mr J. Jones' report.—Butter, 7Jd to 9d, key 6Jd to 7id, box 7d to 8d; eggs, 1/G to 1/9; preserved, lOd to 1/; cheese tyd to 4i'd; hon°y, 3/ to 3/6 dozen; bacon, 5d to 5Ad; hams, 6d to 6Jd; lard, 4d to 4id; potatoes, £3 10/ to £3 15/; onions, 10/ to 11/6; local, 10/ to 12/; pumpkins, 1/6 to 2/; kumaras, 5/ to 6/; melons, 2/6 to .'V6; roosters, 1/9 to 2/7; cockerels, 1/G to 1/8; hens, 1/3 to 1/8; ducks, 1/7 to 2/3; geese, 2/3 to 3/; turkey hens, 2/6 to 3/3; gobblers, 5/ to 7/6; pigs, 5/ to 9/4; oats, 2/ to 2/2; maize, 2/6 to 2/8; bran, £4 10/ to £4 15/; sharps, £4 17/6 to £5; wheat, 2/8 to 2/9; chaff, £2 17/6 to £3 2/6: aples, 4/ to 6/6; Inferior, 2/G to 3/9; walnuts, fid to s£d; tomatoes, 5/; lemons. 4/ to 5/; Cape. 3*d to 4d; passion. 3/6 to G/; rabbits, 1/2 to 1/6 pair; hares, 1/0 to 1/9 each.
Messrs Jas. Cahill and Co.'s Report.— Prime Canterbury potatoes, £3 10/ to £3 15/; local, £3 5/; Southern onions, 9/ to 10/; pumpkins, £2 to £2; citron melons, £2 5/; pie melons, £2 10/; red carrots, 27/6 to 30/; white carrots, £1 to 25/; sacks cabbage, 2/; new potatoes, ljd; eggs, 1/6 to 1/10 (fresh); pickled, 1/ to l/4i; butter, dairy, prime, 9d to lOd; medium, 7*d to Sid; cheese, 3?. dto 4d; dressed pork, 2hd to 4d; bacon, prime, 61d; medium, 4id; hams, 6Jd to 7jd; keg butter, 7Jd to Sd. Fruit—Apples, dpssert, best sorts, large cases, 5/ to 7/6; half-cases, 2/6 to 2/10; passion fruit, 3/ to 4/ per half-case; tree tomatoes, 3/6; Cape gooseberries, 3d to 4d; P.M. oranges, half-case, 2/6; guavas, 4/3 per half-case: lemons, large cases, 3/ to 4/: case; half-case, 1/6 to 2/3. Poultry— Large supply; large roosters, 1/9 to 2/; medium and cockerels. 1/3 to 1/8: chicks, 9d to 1/; hens, 1/3 to 1/6; ducks, 2/6 to 2/11; pullets, 1/6 to 2/. Pige—Weaners, 4/6 to 9/.
Mesrss Hall and Perkins report.—We had an exceptionally heavy sale yesterday, with a strong demand for most lines, especially fruit, eggs, poultry, etc., in consequence of the expected influx of population during the coming week. We report as follows: Apples, dessert, 5/ to 8/6; cooking, 2/6 to 4/6; Cape gooseberries, 2*a to 4d; lemons, 4/6 to 7d; passions, 6/; butter, keg, 7d to BJd; box, 7*d to 9d; separator, Sd to 9d; eggs, 1/9 to 2/, in good demand; cheese, farmers', 4d to 4Jd for prime; potatoes, local, 3/ to 3/3; kumaras, 4/ to 7/; onions, 10/ to 12/; cnafr, 45/ to 50/; at railv/ay, up to 55/; carrots, 20/ to 25/; maize, 2/3 to 2/7; oats, local. 1/8 to 1/9; hay, pressed. £2 15/ to £3. Poultry: Roosters. 1/6 to 3/1; hens, 1/2 to 1/10; turkey gobblers. 3/6 to 7/6: hens, 2/ to 4/; geese, 2/6 to 3/6; ducks, 1/11 to 2/7. Pigs: Weaners, .V 6to 10/; stores, 10/6 to 14/: pofkPrs. 12/6 to 17/: bacmers un to 45/ and SO/: dressed pork, 2£d to 4d.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 130, 3 June 1901, Page 6
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