COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 146, 20 June 1903, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

The Auckland Fruit and Produce Auctioneers' Association report a quiet market during the past week. Potatoes uave been coming forward in large quantities from the Waikato, and prime Hobarts sold well, but whites were diriicult to move. Canterbury potatoes were fairly plentiful, but slow of sale. Seed kidneys are exceptionally scarce and dear. The fruit market has ueen rather dull, due to the bad weather. Fresh dairy butter was scarce, but supplies frozen were ueavy. Eggs are still coming in below requirements, (quotations are:—

Potatoes, local, Walkato Hobarts, £3 7/6 to £3 10/; white sorts, £2 15/; Southern, £4 10/; seed kinds, £4 10/ to £7 ton; kumaras, per cwt, 0/ to 7/; onions* local, 6/ to 8/ cwt; Southern, 4/6 to 5/; maize, 4/ ushel; oats, 2/3; wheat, fowl, 4/1 to 4/3; chaff, £3 to £4 5/; farmers' butter, in prints or rolls, first quality, B£d to OJd ID; pastry butter, 7d lb; farmers' keg butter, lsts, 6d to 7*d; do., 2nds, 4J.d to SU; milled butter in bulk, 10d; factory rolls, lOJd; eggs, fresh, 1/8 to 1/9 doz.; pickled, 1/3; fanners' cheese, 5d to 53d; factory, 6d; loaf, 6id; bacon, 9d to 94d; hams, to 10id. Fruit (for standard cases only)— Apples, dessert, 6/ to 8/; cooking, 4/ to 5/; medium, 2/ to 3/; mothed lots, 1/ to 1/6; pears, dessert, 8/ to 10/; cooking, 4/ to 5/; grapes, hothouse, per lb, 2/; tomatoes, hothouse, per lb, 6d; lemons, dull, 3/6 to 5/; Island oranges, 5/ to 6/; mandarins, 7/ to 8/; gooseberries, per lb, old to 4d; nassion fruit, per case, 8/ to 10/; walnuts, per io, 5d to 6d; peanuts, per lb, 3d; bananas, per bunch, 2/6 to 3/6; do., per lb, 13d; pines, crate, 10/. Poultry—Hens, each, 1/6 to 2/; table roosters, each, 2/ to 3/3; uucks, each, 2/6 to 3/: creese, 3/6 to 4/; tnrkey gobblers, 8/ to 13/; tnrkey hens, 3/6 to 7/. Young pigs. each. 10/ to 14/9: porkers, each, -40/ to 50/; por*, per lb, 3£d to 42d; hares, each, 1/3 to 1/6; rabbits, each, 5d to ...i.