"WELLINGTON PRODUCE REPORT.
Operations in all classes of the new season's grain are now general, and samples all round are of superior quality and well harvested, particularly oats and wheat; prices for the former show a slight decline on the values of old grain, and rule from Is 9d to Is lOd for Danish and Tartarian, and 2s to 2s Id for prime short feed. The winter demand for chaff is being experienced; oaten sheaves command .£3 15s to JB4, and straw JB3. Oatmeal (old stocks) is unaltered at JB9 6s to JB9 10s ; milling wheat has but little local demand, and nominal values are from 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; good whole fowls' samples are plentiful at 2s lOd to 8s per bushel; flour (old grist), £9 10s to £9 15s; new ditto, £8 15s to £9 per ton; maize, slack at 4s; feed barley, 2b lid; pollard, £3 10s ; bran, £3; rye J;rass seed, 3s 6d to 4e per bushel ; cocksoot, 4d per lb ; bacon and hams, scarce at 7idj onions, £5; potatoes, Oamaru, £2 16s, Blenheim, £2 10s ; fresh butter, 7*d ; honey, 4d; cheese, 4d to 4Jd; eggs, firm at 1b 6d, but have assumed an upward tendency, and being quoted at figures which are not likely to be maintained, and therefore are somewhat misleading; fowls, 8s i ducks, 3s 6d to 4s; geese, 6s ; and turkey*, 8a per pair.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1904, 14 April 1888, Page 2
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233"WELLINGTON PRODUCE REPORT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1904, 14 April 1888, Page 2
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