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Mataura Ensign, 11 April 1911, Page 8

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DUNEDIN PRODUCE. I • Messrs Donald Reid and Company, produce merchants, Dunedin, report as ifollows: Oats.—Prime milling, 2s 3'd to 2s Id; good to best, 2s 2£d to 2s 3d; in- ''\ ferior to medium, 2s Id to 2s lid. Wheat.—Prime milling Velvet, 3s 3|d to 3s 4d; Tuscan, etc., 3s 3d to 3s 3£d; ', medium milling and best whole fowl wheat, 3s, Id to 3s 2d; medium fowl : wheat, 2s 9d to 2s lid. Potatoes.—Prime TJp-to-dates, £4 5s i to £4 7s 6d; medium to good, £3 7s 6d to £3 15s; inferior, from £2 10s. Chaff.—Prime heavy oaten sheaf, £4 10s; medium to good, £4 to £4 ss; I inferior, £3 10s to £3 15s. Straw. —Oaten, £2 10s; wheaten, 27s

,6d. Hay.—Prime clover, £4 5s to £4 10s jressed.

i Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limitled, report as follows: We held our weekly auction sale at • our stores on Monday, when we offered a good catalogue to the usual attendance of the trade. Bidding was decidedly slack and we passed the bulk of our catalogue in. The following were prices realised: Oats. —The market still continues to advance. The: offerings from the country are light, and merchants are picking up any; lines which come within »■" ■ their Millers are also buyers, >' and good Sjrfcherlands are in demand. . v 'Black and 7 , dun oats are scarce, and are wanted for seed. Prime dun and black, 2s 3Jd to 2s 4d<; good feed, 2s • 3d to 2s 3Jd; medium, 2s 2d to 2s 2id; inferior, 2s to 2s Id per bushel (bags extra). Wheat.—During the end of last week there was a much better demand, owing to the London market being reported as steadier, consequently, although prices were no different, a large volume of business was put through. All good lines are. in demand. Prime Velvet, 3s 3Jd to 3s 4d; prime Tuscan and Velvet ear, 6s 3d to 3s 3jd; whole fowl feed, 3s Id to 3s 2d; broken and damaged, 2s lOd to 3s per bushel (bags extra). Potatoes. —There is not much differto report in values. There is a strong demand, but supplies are coming in slowly. All good samples are eagerly competed for, but buyers are chary about touching any lines showing any signs of grit. Best sorts, £4 to £4 ss; medium to good, £3 10s to £3 17s 6d; inferior, £2 10s to £2 15s per ton (bags in). Chaff. —Large supplies have come forward from the country, with the consequence that prices are easier, and as ■buyers hold fair stocks, the bulk ot • * what is coming forward is going into store. Best oaten sheaf, £4 7s 6d to £4 lOsjmedium to good, £3 17s 6d to ' £4 ss; light and inferior, £3 to £3 10s; straw chaff, £2 12s 6d to £2 15s per ton (bags extra).

CHEESE EXPORT. i There arrived at the Bluff yesterday lor shipment (says the 'Times') 3034 ' oases of cheese, which is 1038 cases less than was shipped the previous fortnight. On the quantity in port yesterday the London shipment, totalling 2268 cases, was sent forward by the Petone for transhipment to the s.s. Arawa at Lyttelton. The remaining 766 cases, which are for the West of England, will go forward by the Kent in about a week or so. The total shipments so far this season as compared [ with last are—l9lo, 61,842 cases; 1911, .' 63,240. London shipments show a decrease of 4,592 cases, but those for the West of England have increased by . 5990 cases. *. Mr J. R. Scott, secretary 6f the South Island Dairy Association, pret diets a further rising in the price of New Zealand cheese. He pointed out that prices have already touched 625, and he believed that shortly they would go as high as 645, which is a higher figure than has been made for some years. The Teason for this decided advance he attributes to a shortage in the Canadian export, and the continued satisfaction which the New Zealand article is giving to Home consumers. The amount of grain carried over the Southland railways to date exceeds that carried to the corresponding date of last year by 45,369 sacks. Last week the number of sacks carried was 51,009, which is 9827 sacks more than was carried last year during the first week of April.

WAIHI GRAND JUNCTIONS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT. PBB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received April 11, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, April 10. Waihi Grand Junction shares are quoted as follows: Buyers, 26s 3d; sellers, 28s 9d.