FRUIT AND PRODUCE
I Messrs Bray Bros, (of Dninedin), Ltd., 'report as follows for the week ended today :—The following prices were realised during tho week: Wheat.—Fowl, 6s 9d per bushel. Oats.—Feed Qartons, 4s 9d per bushel. Chaff.—Prime oaten sheaf, £7 10s; medium, £6 10s to £6 15b per ton. Fat, 27s per cwt. Beeswax, 2s per lb. Clover hay, £7 per ton. Hitchon's bacon, Is 3d per lb. Cheese.—Mild and matured, 10|d per lb. Eggs.—Stamped, Is 4d to Is 5d per doz. Butter.—Creamery bulk, Is 5Jd; creamery pats, Is 6d ; dairy and separator, Is 3d ; milled, Is 2d to Is 4d per lb. Honey.—Sections, 10s per dozen; bulk white clover, BAd per lb. Apples.—Jonathans, 10s; cookers, 9s ; Delicious, 14s to 15s; Lord Wolseleys, 10s to lis per case. Mandarins, 27s per case. Sydney oranges, 20s per case. _ - Lemons.—Adelaide, 20s; American, £2 5s per case. Bananas.—Ripe, 27s 6d ; Rarotonga, 16s 6d per case. Pines, 18s per case. Passioas, 21s per case. Tomatoes.—Local, Is 6d per lb. Walnuts, Is 3d per lb. Grapes, 3s per lb. Melons, 20s per cwt. Pumpkins, 10s per cwt. Onions.—Good, dry Canterbury, 28s per Potatoes.—Prime local. £l3 to £l4 per Firsts, 6s to 7s per sack. Cabbages, 6s to 7s pea- sack. Marrows, 7s per sack. Poultry.—Hens. 4s; cockerels, 6s od to 7s; ducks, 7s 6d per pair; turkey gobblers, lid; turkey hens, per lb (live weight). _, ... Pigs.—Best baconers, 9d; over-weights, 6d; porkers, lOd per lb.
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Evening Star, Issue 16821, 24 August 1918, Page 11
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240FRUIT AND PRODUCE Evening Star, Issue 16821, 24 August 1918, Page 11
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