COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 147, 22 June 1901, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS.

Messrs A. Tooman and Co. report good business during the past week at the following rates:—Southern potatoes, £5 to £5 10/; local do., £4; Waikato, £4 to £4 10/; kidney seed, £5 10/; prime onions, lid and lid; pumpkins, 30/ to GO/; carrots, 20/ tor 25/; prime dairy butter, 9d to lOd lb; factory, lid to 1/; farmers' keg, 7d to Sd; milled, 9>.d; eggs, 1/01 to 1/2J dozen; cheese. 4d to 4Jd; bacon. 5d to 6d; hams, Cd to 7id. Fruit: Choice apples, </6 to 10/3 case; poor do. 4/ to 5/; lemons, 2/ to 3/ Island oranges, 8/ to 9/; local, 2/ to 3/ p' nmins 4/3 to 7/; passion fruit, 9/ to 11/ Trim* 1/3 to 1/8. Poultry: Hens, 1/6 S'lffftlt. 2/ to 2/9= ilucks, 2/ to 3/; geese, 3/; turkeys, 2/ to 5/3. Mr J Jones' Report.-Butter, 71d to 83d; keg ad to 7id; box. 7d to 7Jd; eggs, I/to /^'cheese 3\A to 4d; bacon, s*d to 5Sd; hams «d to"7d; honey, 3d to 31d; potafoeT € 5 10/ to £5 15/; local, £3 10/ to £4; Mdneys « W; local, £4 5/; Shepherds, 5/ to 6/' onions, 11/ to 15/ cwt; pumpkins, 2/3 to 2/9; carrots, 1/3 to 1/9 cwt; kumaras, G/ to 7/6 cwt. Poultry-Roosters 1/6 to ?/?■ hens 1/2 to 1/7; ducks, 1/5 to 1/10; Skis 2/3 to 5/: Pigs 5/ to 10/4 FruitADPles 5/10 to 7/6 case; lemons 3/ t0,3/6. Capet'3d to 3Jd lb; tree tomatoes, 3/ to c/ nncp- walnuts, 5d to 5Jd lb. Oats, <v<s, Lize. 2/GTwneat, 2/8; bran,£4 10/; sharps, £5; chaff, £2 15/ to £3.

Messrs Jas. Cahill and Co. report sales at the following P^^T^r^lO/" toes £5 10/ to £6; local, £4 to £4 10/, onions 9/ to 14/; white carrots 23/; red carrots, £1 W per ton; pumpkins, 30/ to W/; seed kidneys, £5 to £6; chaff 45/ to £3 new kidneys, Id; Shepherds Id per lv,- fr^qh e^frs 1/3; preserved, lOd; fresh dairy buttered to V; medium, 7d to 7Jd; X? butter, 7id to Bid; cheese, 31d to 4|d; bacon firsts 6Jd; hams, 8d; medium. Aid f u<\- lard 43d. Fruit-Apples, prime aessert' 7/ to 9/ cooking, 5/9 to 6/9; Cape P-noseberries, 2d to 3d; persimmons, 4d to M ncr dozen' tree tomatoes, 2/ per quarter case passion fruit, 3/1 to 4/2 per quarter case'; P.M. oranges, 2/6 to 3/ per halfcase 6/ to 8/ large case; lemons, 2/ to 3/. Poultry-Koosters, 1/G to 2/; small cockerels, 1/3 to 1/5; hens, 1/3 to 1/6; ducks. 1/6 to 2/6; turkey hens, 3/6; gobblers 5/ to 7/ Pigs-Suckers, 3/ to 4/; weaners, 4/3 to 7/.