WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3073, 8 May 1917, Page 8

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

" : Laery• and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale, prices, as follow: — Fowls' wheat, prime, 6s. 9d. per bushel; fowls' barley, 4s. per bushel; Cape barley, ss. per .bushel; blue peas, 17s. 6d.. per bushel; Partridge peas, Bs. 3d. per bushel; ss. 9d. per bushel; crushed maize, 6s. 3d. per bushel'; chaff, oat sheaf, £6 12s. 6d. per ton; hay, clover, £5 per ton; hay, meadow, £5 per ton; flour, in sacks, £,16 ss. per ton; oatmeal, 25's, £23 per ton; pollard, £8 per ton; bran, £5 ss. per ton. Bacon, (all best factory): 'Sides, Is. Id. per lb.; rolls, Is. 2d. per lb.; hams, Is. 2d., per lb.; shoulders, 103 d. per lb.; cheese (factory), medium, ]od. per lb.; cheese, loaf, lid. per lb. Linseed meal: 100's, £12 per ton; 50's M £l2 10s. per ton; 20's, £13 per ton; linseed, nuts, 12s.'6d. per cwt.; linseed ground cake, 12s. 6d. per. cwt.; whole linseed, 255. per cwt.; rice pollard, £6 per ton; rico meal, £5

15s. per ton; onions, £10 per ton; potatoes, white skinned tablo, £7 to £7 10s. per ton; pig meal, £6 per ion. All poultry iu very good demand. Hens, 3s. 6d. to ss. por pair; cockerels, ss. to-7s. por pair; ducks (Peking and Aylesbury), Bs. per pair; ducks (Indian runners), ss. 6d.'per pair; butter (prime bulk), Is. 4d. per lb.; turkeys (gobblers), Is. 2d. per lb. live, weight; turkeys (hens), Is. per lb. live weight; eggs, fresh, 3s. 6d. per dozen; preserved, Is. lid.