Weekly Market Report.

Lake County Press, Issue 2391, 31 August 1911, Page 5

Weekly Market Report.

Messrs Waters, Hitchie, and Co., auctioneers, wool, grain, produce, and commission agents, report (wholesale) for the week as under. All quotations are subject to market lluetnations ; Wheat, The market is linn. Best velvet and Tuscan $/8 to 3/9, medium 3/(1 to 3/7, fowl wheat 3/- to 3/2 (sacks extra). Oats.—Demand keen. Milling 2a 7d to 2s 7Ad, bright short feed 2s (id to 2s Old, medium and inferior 2s 4d to 2s sr)d. Barley.—We have a good) demand for prime malting samples. llahbitskins.—Sales every week. Demand keen and prices firm. Suckers and runners 4d to 5(1, summers (id to Od, autumns lid to 15d per lb, incomings 15d to 17d, winters 1 Od to 20d. selected dons 2ld to 23d. Sheepskins.—Sales weekly. The demand is good, hut prices are without alteration. Wo quote: Pelts IsOdto 2s (id, crossbred l!s to os 3d, extra 5/9 toto Os Od, merino 2s Od to Is, extra -Is Od to os, Hides.—We hold fortnightly sales. Prime stout ox 7-Jcl to hid,heavy do Ofl to 7d medium no (id to Old, light do (i.t to Old, damaged Id tooDd, calfskins 2s (id to os, yearlings os to Os, horse hides 8s to lls each. Tallow—Rough fat 10s to 10s, tallow in tins 21s to 235, casks 2Gs to 27s per cwt. Horsehair.—l7Ad to lOd per lb. We store and dress all classes of seed and grain. All our machinery is of the latest and most effective design, and is operated by practical men of long experience General Produce llerort. Butter. —Best , salt 101 per lb, dairy butter (in puts) lid per lb. Eggs—l’Vcsh JO I. Good demand. Honey, 3j‘d to Old per lb. Cheeso, (id to Ola pier lb. Bacon.—Rolls 71d, hams B.UI. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baconers 4 }d, porkers 4»ld, heavy weights 2ld to 3.1. Poultry (local) Roosters 3/0 to 4/0 per pair, hens 2/9 to 3s per pair, ducks 3s Od a pair.

Fruit and Produce Report.

Messrs T. E, Shiel and Co.. Auctioneers, Fruit, Produce, Grain and Commission Agents, Stafford Street, Dunedin, report for week ending August 21, 1911; Eggs. —Considerable quantities have been forward this weak. The market has eased as indicated by us. We quote—Guaranteed stamped Is (occasional sales Is Id per dozen), ordinary cased l ld to Is. We expect Uid io 10 ,(1 to ha the ruling prices next week. Butter. —All classes are extremely scarce. Wo quote— First quality storekeeper's pound pals (separator) lid to Is, ordinary pats 101 to lid. The demand is good Poultry—Good demand for well-conditioned biros. Cock turkeys 7d lb, hens (id, ducks (plump) 4/0 per pair, young roosters 4s, hens 3/0 per pair. We supply crates on application.

Honey. Consignments of good bright clover readily saleable at 4il per lb, l s lb pats attractively got up 3s to 3s 3d, lbs 5s to 5s (id, 2lbs 7s (id to 9s.

Cheese. Very scarce. Well matured Akaroa up to Old, loaf up to C:/d. Bacon—Medium weights ot}a per lb, quality guaranteed ; hams 7-} d. Pigs.—Excellent demand for good baconers (140 to 170’s) 4Jd to 4.U1 per lb, heavier weights at relatively lower rates, butcher's pigs (100’s to 130’s) 4UI per lb. Chaff—The demand is very quiet, and there is little margin for shipping at present in competition with Northern markets, which are lower in values. Wo quote Prime quality black oat sheaf at £4 5s per ton, white oat up to £4 2s (id, medium quality £3 15s ton. Hay.—Prime clover £4 per ton.

Straw.—We have handled fully 100 tons of wheateu this week. To-day’s value—whoaten 32/0 ton, oaten 45)- to 47/0. Pollard 115s, bran 955. Swedes 80s to 32s Od. Carrots —Better demand. 40s to 455,

Oats—Considerable business has been passing this week. We are buyers on trucks country stations—Carton’s, sparrowhills 2/5, blacks 2/5, net cash on trucks.

Fowl Wheat —Very scarce, 3/4 to 3/(5 per bushel, broken 3/3. Maize—3/4 for prime lines.

Potatoes. —We have handled (his week nearly two thousand sacks, the bulk of them being for forward orders. All markets are, however, fully stocked at present. There is absolutely no enquiries from the North; advice from Auckland states that new potatoes are already making great headway, aud the crops are expected to be in fully a month earlier than usual. We quote—Prime carefully graded Derwents up to 70s, Up-to-dates 57/0 to 62/(5. Wo are prepared to offer full market rates on trucks in the country to those desirous of. selling. Wo advise, however, that all potatoes be put in new sacks. Vegetables of all kinds are scarce. Cauliflowers 7s to 10s per dozen. Cabbages—6s 6d per dozen. Vegetable Marrows, (is to 7s per sack. Pumpkins—4s (id to 5s (Id per sack. Apples. —Locals, good demand, choice 2id lb, medium 2£d lb, dessert sorts 7s to 8s case. Hobart apples -Choicest SPM’s l)s 6d to 10s case, medium S)s, French crabs 8s fid to Os 3d case, New York Pippins Os case. Pears—Cooking 2;} d lb, Winter Nolls 3jd to id lb, Melbourne Winter Nolis 11s to 12s case.

Bananas —We quote ripe fruit 7s per case. Island oranges - Scarce ; 12s to 13s. Mandarins—Choice Sydney 8/G per gin case.

Pines, 8s to Os Odcase. Seville oranges 7s to Bs. Poorman’s 7s. Dates—Choice bulk IGs cwt. Sydney lemons 0a (id fo 7s, Milduras Os, Adelaide 8s 6d. Molascuit Fodder £5 per ton.

Wo receive consignments of garden and farm produce of every description every day for sale; prompt account sales and cheque with highest market prices guaranteed. Correspondence solicited.

Note.—V/e can supply chaff sacks, egg cases, poultry crates, or other sundries on application ; ahy advice notes and envelopes. Rod’s Non-alcbolic Ale—Split bottles la (id dozen, pints 2s (id, quarts -Is, in ease lots.