WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 58, 9 March 1906, Page 1

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT

PRICES CURRENT

(Special for " Marlborough Express.") WELLINGTON, March 8. The New Zealand Farmers' CoOperative Distributing Company report as follows: Maize, 4s 9d per bushel. Wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 7d per bushel. Oats, prime feed 2s 5d to 2s 6d; crushed 2s lOd. Oats, seed, Duns, Algerians, and White Tartars 2s lOd. Harley, feed 2s 9d, Cape Seed 3s 3d. Peas, Prussian blues 4s per bushel. Rice meal, £5 per ton. Pollard, £6 to £6 5s per ton. Bran, £4 to £4 10s. Cocksfoot, 4d to s£d per lb. Ryegrass, 4s 9d per bushel. Cowgrass, colonial 75s cwt. Rice, broken, Bs-per 1001b in 2001b bags. Chaff, prime oaten sheaf, £3 15s per ton at country stations. Straw, 45s per ton. Potatoes, Up-to-dates £14s 10s. Onions, £8 10s per ton. Butter, separator B£d. Eggs, fresh, Is 5d -per dozen. ; Cheese, best factory mediums 6d. Honey, 4d to 4sd per lb. Bacon, factory sides 6£d, rolls 7^d, hams 7£d. . Dressed pork, 56's to 80's, 4d; 80' s to 100's, 3|d. Cabbage, 2s 6d per sack. > Cauliflower, 4s 6d per sack. Green peas, 9d per peck. Grapes, 7d to 9crperlbl Apples, local dessert, 5s j cookers 3s 6d to 4s. Tomatoes, 3s 6d to 4s per half-case. Plums, Ogans and Burbanks 4s 6d to ss, Blue Diamonds 5s per half case. Peaches, 6s per half case. Greengages, 6s per half case. Nectarines, 6s per Half case. Poultry—Table roosters 3s 6d, cockerels 4s to 5s for good birds, table hens 2s 6d, ducks ,4s to ss, .all at per pair.- ; , ■ .'... 3 ':_;;, '■'■ ~- \ :':