LOCAL PRODUCE PRICES.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 16

LOCAL PRODUCE PRICES.

WELLINGTON, 11th February. Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., have pleasure in advising current prices as follows:—Wheat, 6s 5d to 7s '2d bushel, sacks in, for ten sack lots or over; smaller quantities, 2d bushel extra. Oats: Machine-dressed Algerians 4s 4d, Gartons 3s 8d to 3s lid, shelled oats 5s 9d to 6s 4d, Sparrowbills 4s 9d, crushed oats 4s 6d, black oats ss, Dun oats 5s 3d to 6s 3d bushel, sacks in. Barley: Feed, 3s 2d bushel. Mixed fowl feed: Tikaka brand 6s 3d bushel; less than five sack lots 6s 6d bushel, sacks in. Pollard: £6 ss, less than %-ton lots 10s ton extra. Bran: £6 10s, less than J£-ton lots 10s ton extra. Peas: Prussian blue for boiling 7s 6d bushel, sacks in: Peas: Crushed for fowls 6s 9d bushel, feed peas 5s lid, Partridge peas 6s Id to 6s 3d bushel. Maize: N.Z. whole 5s Bd, crushed maize 5s sd, less than ten sack lots 2d bushel extra. Charcoal: For poultry in 501b bags 11s 6d per bag. Maizemeal: 7s bushel. Meal: Barleymeal £8, meatmeal £13, pigmeal £8 ss, wheatmeal £13 ss, peameal £10; less than ton lots 10s ton extra. Linseed: Linseed meal £15, nuts £15; less tha.i Ys-ton lots 10s ton extra. Linseed: Whole 22s 6d, crushed 255; less than sack lots 2s, 6d cwt extra. Salt: Rock £6; less than ton lots 10s ton extra. Chaff: Prime Blenheim £6 10s, undergrade lines/ £5 15s to .£O, less than ton lots 10s ton extra. Shell grit: Tikaka brand,, oyster or pipi, 5-bag lots 4s 9d bag, smaller quantities 5s bag.. Molasses: In casks, about scwt. 40s cask. Black leaf 40: In 101b tins 555, 21b tins 14s 6d tin, %lb bottles 5s 3d each, loz bottles 12s 6d per dozen, Basic slag: 17-20 per cent, and 20-22 per cent., prices on application. Mutton birds: Tasmanion in casks, 6d per bird. Superphosphates, £4 17s ~6d, f.0.r.. Smart road; smaller quantities through store 7s. Blood aud bone raanure 9s, potato 8s 6d, bonedust 8s 6dcwt. Peanuts: Java shelled peanuts 3d per lb, Chinese in shell 3%d per ,1b; less than sack lots %d per lb extra. Dairy butter: P«ts and Inilk 9d tr> lOd per ib. Eggs: Fresh Is Sd to Is M per dozen. Fowls: White Leghorns 3s 6d to 4s, Black Orpingtons and heavy varieties 5s to Gs 6d per pair. Geese: 8s to 10s per pair. Ducks: Runners, young, 6s to Bs, heavy whites Si to 10s pair, old 4s to 6a per pair. Turkeys, Is Id to Is 3d per lb.