AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 242, 11 October 1902, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

The Auckland Fruit and Produce Auctioneers' Association report that the local produce markets have been fairly busy during the past week, but the only changes are that eggs and dairy butter are easier. Factory butter is firm, with increased local sales. Vegetables are scarcer and dearer in price. Poultry was more plentiful, but there was no fall in prices. Quotations are as follow:—

Field Produce.—Potatoes: Local. £4 to £4 10/ ton; Southern, £5 10/ to £6: new. round, 1-Jd lb; new kidneys, lid to 2d: onions, local, Id to Ud lb; American, 13/ to 14/ cwt; Victorian 10/; sJoutbern, _../(> to 5/.

Vegetable*-,.—Cabbages, 1/G to 3/G dozen: 5/ to 9/ sack; cauliflowers, 2/ to 8/ dozen: rhubarb, 6/8 to 9/; asparagus, 4/ to 11. Dairy Produce.—Dairy butter, i- -rints or rolls, first quality, 9d to lOd lb: separator, 9d to lOd: pastry, 9d; farmers' keg. firsts 9d, seconds 9d, milled in bulk 10id: factory rolls, lid to 1/. Ecgs, fresh, Sid to 9d. Cheese, farmers', 4_d to sd: factory, 6_d to 6d; loaf. 6d to 6_d. Eacon, farmers', 7d to 7_d: factory, 81d to 9d. Hams, farmers', 7id to B_d; factory, 9_d to lOd.

Fruit (quotations for standard cases and boxes only).—Apples, Hobart. 7/ to 10/ case; Southern, 4/ to 6/. Tomatoes, hothouse, 4d to B}d lb; passion fruit, 10/ to 15/ case; walnuts, 7d lb; peanuts, ljd to 2d; bananas, 13d to 2d; nines. 8/ to 12/ crate; cocoanuts, 8/ to 10/ sack.

Poultry.—Hens, 1/10 to 2/8 ea^: table roosters, 26 to 3/3; ducks. 2/3 to 3/: geese, 4/ to 4/6; ducklings, 6d to 9d: turkeys, gobblers. 8/ to 10/:. hens, 4/ to 7/3,

Miscellaneous.—Young pigs, 7/ to 15/9 each; norkers, 20/ to 40/; pork, 4id to 5d lb: hares, 1/3 to 1/6 each; rabbits. 6d to Sd.

Mr J. Jones reports:—Poultry: Roofers, 2/3 to 3/3; hens. 2/ to 2/G; ethers, 1/6 to 3/U; turkey hens, 3/ to 41; prime gobblers, 7/6 to 10/; poor turkeys, 5/ to fi/: gee.se, "/. to •!/; ducks, 2/.'! to 3/; ducklings, Gd to Sd; pigs, few entered, 9/6 to. 1 */. Produce: Jtjgga, SJd to 9d; butter, Su to lOd; keg, Hri to 9J<l; cheese, 5d to Gd per lb; bacon, 7id to 9d por lb; ha_ns, B_d to 9W per lb; lard, 6.1 to 7d per lb; honey. 3/0 to 4/; |X>tatoes, .!..". )("/ to £6; other samples, £1 15/ to £5 10/; new potatoes, l}d to 2d per lb; onions, 12/ to 14/ cwt; kumara*, l_d to 3d per lb. Fruit: Apple.. 9/ to 10/6: lemons, 5/ to 5/G per case. Maize, 4/1 to 4/3 bushel: wheat. 3/9 to 3/11 bushel; sharps and bran, £7 per ton.