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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1214, 1 April 1884, Page 2

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WELLINGTON MARKETS. Wellington, March 29. George Thomas reports produce prices as follows :—Flour, of undoubted quality, is firm at £ll, second brands, £lO 10/ ; oats, principally Marlborough production, command 2/3 to 2/6 for fair to prime samples; fowls’ wheat, of good whole grain, is rather scarce, and may be quoted at 3/; fowls’ barley, market full and slow of sale from 2/6 to 2/0 ; maize (New Zealand), 3/6 to 3/S; bran, £4 to £4 5/; pollard, £5, in good demand for winter supplies ; oaten chaff, £4 10/; bean 3, 3/9; Brown River and Derwent potatoes are now being offered in large parcels at 60/, exclusive of sacks; carrots, 42/6; Canterbury cheese rules from 1

4Jd to sd, stocks are still large, and no improvement in price is anticipated at present; hams and bacon, 9d all round; salt butter is easier and may be bought at Sid to 9d, fresh, 9£d to lOd. There have been no arrivals of assorted shipmeuts of fruits, peaches, apples, and pears being the only description, and these have sold fairly well, apples from 3/ to 6/; pears, 6/ to 15 ; and peaches, 5/ to 8/. Eggs in demand at 1/10 to 1/11; fowls, 3/9; ducks, 4/ per pair. LABOR MARKET. Franco Brothers report wages as follows : —Day labor, 7/ to S/; carpenters, 10/; bricklayers and plasterers, 11/ to 12/ : painters and glaziers, 9/ to 10/ ; plumbers ; and gasfitters, 9/ to 12/; blacksmiths, 9/ to 10/; bakers, 30/ to 60/ ; draymen, 42/ to 50/ ; coachmen, 30/ to 35/ ; grooms, 20/ to 40/ ; storemen, 35/ to 50/ ; gardeners, 7/ to 8/ per day ; barmen and night porters, 25/ to 40/ ; waiters, 20/ to 35/; boots and kitchenmen, 15/ to 25/; cooks, men, 25/ to 40/ ; cooks, female, 10/ to 30/; housemaids, 12/to 15/; hotel do, 15/ to 20/; general servants, 10/ to 14/; nurse girls, 5/ to 8/; barmaids, 25/ to 30/; boys, 5/ to 15/; milkmen, 20/ to 30/; farm hands, 15/ to 25/ ; pick and shovel men, 7/ to 9/ per day. Female servants have been more plentiful. DUNEDIN MARKETS. (Otago Daily Times, March 29. Messrs Mercer Bros, report paying for produce during the week ending 26th inst: Fresh butter, favorite brands, lid per lb; fresh butter, good ordinary (in lib and 41b prints), 9d do ; salt butter, do ; bacon (roll), Sd do ; hams, 9£d do ; honey, 5d do ; eggs, 1/4 per dozen ; potatoes, £3 per ton. Wholesale Produce Reports. Mr J. - Fleming, Princes-stroet South, reports under date the 26th inst : Wheat, best milling, 3/9 to4/per bushel ; medium milling, 3/6 do ; fowls’ wheat, 2/ to 3/ do, according to quality ; oats, milling, 1/10 to 2/ do; oats, feed, 1/9 to 1/11 do ; malt barley, 4/6 do ; feed barley, 2/ to 2/6 do ; pearl barley, £2l per ton ; old hay, £4 10/ do; oatmeal, £ll do; straw, £2 5/ do ; oaten chaff, £3 10/ do;' bran, £4 do; pollard, £4 10/ do; flour, £lO to £lO 10/ do; barley dust, £4 do ; bacon (rolled), Sd per lb ; sides of bacon (grain-fed), Bjd do; cheese, 4d to 4kl do ; hams, lid do ; onions, 7/per cwt ; new hay, £3 10/ per ton. The cheese market is glutted. Potatoes £3 per ton.