COMMERCIAL. Evening Post Office,
Saturday Afternoon. Th& Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week o"di"g to-day amounted to £11,658 12 a Bd. Beer. £56 19s 3d. Gboboi Thokas ahd Co. report wholesale produce prices as follows :— Harresting operations are delayed in the South Island, and nntil Southland farmers are prepared to offer supplies the market ralne of oats remains unsettled. New samples of milling wheat are now arailable. bnt little bnshiesa is passing nntil a fair standard value ia arriVed at. It is anticipated that quotations will suffer an all-round reduction on present values, bnt the low opening prices of last season will not be repeated. We quote— Boiler flour, in '.iWs, £10 5s per ton; whole fowl wheat, 3s lOd; bran, Bos; pollard, 90b s prime abort oats, 2a 2d; lomr feed, 2s to 2s Id ; duns, 2s 3d ; oatmeal, £10 to £10 ss ; oaten sheaf chaff, 70s to 75s per ton ; feed barley, 2s 9d : maize, 3s 6d ; beans, 3s; blue peas, 4a 3d ; partridge do,Ss9d: pearl barley, 14s ; split peas, 13a 6d. The demand for grass seed, especially rye and cocksfoot, ia quiet, there being more sellers than baTers. Potato's are ia fair request at 60s to 70s per ton. Onions slowly advancing, and now standing at £5. Separator butter. 9d; dairy from 6d to 7d per lb; cheese, 4}d; bacon, 6d; hams, 7d ; egg*, firm, and scarce at Is 3d per dor. Poultry, dull at last quoted rates. Messrs Edwards and M'Beath report wages for last week as follows:— Married couples, £70 to £90; carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; 'blacksmiths, 9s to 10a ; painters and glaziers, 8s to 9s 4d ; plumbers and gasntters, 9s to 10s; storemen, 42s to 80s; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 3ss ; grooms, 25a to 35s gardeners, 6s to 8a farm hands, 15b to 255 ; milkmen, 25s to 27a hotelmen 20s to 4os; barmaids, 255 t0 305; waitresses, 15s to 20s; cooks, 25s to 40s; female do, 25b to 355; honsemaida, 12sto20s; general servants, 10s to 14s; nnxseirixls and boys, 7s to 15a paper hangers, 9s 4d to 10s. There is a slieht improvement in the demand for domenio servant*, bnt male labour is very plentiful, with no demand.
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Evening Post, Volume LI, Issue 63, 14 March 1896, Page 2
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372COMMERCIAL. Evening Post Office, Evening Post, Volume LI, Issue 63, 14 March 1896, Page 2
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