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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 110, 9 May 1903, Page 6

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AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS,

The Auckland Fruit and Produce Auctioneers' Association report that supplies of produce generally were heavy, and good business was done. Poultry was in nioderate supply, and realised good prices. The butter market was unchanged, while eggs, cheese, and bacon remain scarce and dear. Pigs sold at much lower prices. In fruit there was a great.fall off in, local supplies, yet prices, i which were a shade better, still ruled low, considering the lateness of the season. Quotations: Field Produce. —Potatoes : Local, £3 10/ to £3 15/ ton; Southern, £4 10/; seed kinds, £3 to £5 10/; poor samples, £2 10/ to £3; kumaras, 5/ to 6/ cwt; onions, local' seed, 5/ to 6/; Southern, 5/ to 5/6. ■ ".. Vegetables. —Cabbages, 6d to 9d dozen, 6d to 2/ sack; cauliflowers, 1/ to 2/ dozen ; rhubarb; 1/ to 2/; French beans, 1/ bag. : Dairy Produce. —Dairy butt»r,. in prints or rolls, first quality, to 10d lb; separator, B%d to 10d; pastry, 7d to 8d; farmers' keg, firsts, 7d to 7%d; seconds, 4d to 6d; milled, in bulk, 9%d; factory rolls, loy.d to lid; eggs, fresh, 1/8 to 2/ dozen; pickled, 1/1 to 1/3; cheese, farmers', 5d to 5%d; factory, 5%d to 5%d; loaf, Gd to 6V.d; bacon, farmers', 9d io9%d; factory, 9d to hams, farmers'; 9d to factory, 9d to 10% d. Pruit (quotations for standard cases and boxes only).—Apples, local dessert. 2/ id 4Acase; cooking,2/ to 3/, 9d to 2/box; inferior, 1/ to 1/3 case; mothed lots were unsaleable; pears, Beurre Dlel, 3/ to 4/ box; cooking, 1 1/ to 2/; Vicar, 3/ to 4/ case; grapes, indoor, 3d to 1/1 lb, according to quality and packing • outdoor, 1/ to 4/ box; lemons, local, coarse, 3/ to 3/6 case; good, 4/ to 6/; Cape gooseberries, 3d to 4d lb; quinces, 5/ to 6/ case; oranges, Island, prime, 3/ to 4/ case ; poor. 0d to 1/3 ; local varieties were unsaleable; figs, 1/6 to 3/6 box'; peanuts, 3d *lb; bananas, 2/3 to 4/ bunch, 2%d IB; pines, 8/ to 10/ <■ crate: cocoanuts, 8/ sack. Poultry.—Hens, each 1/ to 1/9; table roosters, fat, 2/3 to 2/9, poor %/3 to 1/9; ducks, 1/6 to 3/; geese, 3/ to 4/; chicks, 6d to 1/; turkeys, gobblers, good 8/ to 10/, poor 3/6 to 5/; hens, fat, 5/ to 6/, poor 1/6 to 3/. • Miscellaneous.-i-Honey, bulk. 3d to 3%d lb; section, 3%d to 4d; 21b tins, 8/6. Young pigs, 5/ to 10/; porkers, 15/ to 30/; pork, 4%d lb: hares,*l/6 to 2/ each; rabbits, 6d to id.