LATE COMMERCIAL.

Mataura Ensign, 19 October 1909, Page 3

LATE COMMERCIAL.

* DUNEDIN PRODUCE REPORT. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Dunedin, report as follows: We held our usual weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a small catalogue to a small attendance of buyers. Wo cleared our catalogue at prices as under: Oats. —The market has taken rather a healthier tone, inquiry being mainly for A grade Cartons. Any consignments arriving of either A or 15 grade Cartons or Sparrowbills are readily taken at quotations as follows: Prime milling Cartons, Is Tid to Is 81d; prime milling Sparrowbills, Is 7d to Is 8d; good to best feed, Is Gd to Is 7-Jd; inferior to medium, Is 3d to Is 3d per bushel (sacks extra).

Wheat.—The wheat market remains in the same position, with a few lines of prime milling changing hands at quotations. Fowl wheat is in fair request, good whole-berried wheat being readily placed as follows: Prime milling, 4s 4d to 4s sd; medium to good, 4s to 4s 2d; best whole fowl wheat, 3s lOd to 4s; inferior and smutted, 2s 6d to 3s 6d.

Potatoes.—Good, sound freshly-pick-ed (Jp-to-Dates are in short supply, and prices have advanced 10s per ton. Consignments meet with ready sale provided they are in good order, but stale and inferior are not in request. We quote: Prime freshly-picked Up-to-Dates, £3 to £'3 ss; medium to good, 30s to £2 10s per ton (sacks in). Chaff. —Prime well-cut oaten sheaf is offering a little more freely, and prices are inclined to be a little easier. Medium and discolored are still offering in fair quantities and are dull of sale. We quote: Best oaten sheaf, £2 10s to £2 12s 6d; choice, £2 15s; medium to good, £2 2s fid to £2 7s 6d; inferior and discolored,- 30s to 40s per ton (sacks extra). Straw is offering more freely. We quote: Oaten and wheaten, 303 to 32s Gd per ton, pressed (ex truck).