COMMERCIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 21 December 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs Waters, Ritchie and Co., Auctioneers, Wool, Grain, Produce and Commission Agents, report whole sale for the week as under.

All quotations are subject to market fluctuations. > Wheat.—Good demand at Government prices.

Oats. —Market quiet Milling 3s 8d to 3s 9d, bright short feed 3s 7d to 3s Bd, medium and inferior 3s 3d to 3 6d on trucks.

Rabbitskihs.—ln great demand at late extreme prices. Summers 21d to 28d, racks 23d to 26d, autumns 30d to 38d, incoming 40d to 45d, winter blacks 65d to 79d, winter .bucks 44d> to 50d, winter does 60d to 65d; second winter does 48d to 58d; outgoing bucks, 40d to 44d; does 40d to 47d; Bprings 26d to 30d; selected winter does to 76d; selected bucks to 65d per lb.

Hides.—Government have now taken these over and valuations are held every fortnight. Sheepskins.—Government valuation held fortnightly.

Tallow.—Market firm at lata rates. Kough tat 16s to 20s; tallow in tins, 26s to 30s; casks, 30s to 37spercwt. Horsehair. — Market quiet, 15d to 16d per lb.

W« atore and dreaa all claasea of aeed and grain. All our machinery ia of tha latest and moat effective deaign, and is operated by practical man of long exparience. General Produce Report. Batter.—Beat salt, Is 3d per lb. Dairy butter in pata, la. Eggs.—Fresh, 1b 2d. Honey.—sJd per lb. Poultry. Local roosters, to 5a par pair; hens, 3a 6d per pair; ducks, 5a per pair. , Bacon —Rolls, la 3d; bams la 4d. Cbeeae. —lljd par lb. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baconara lid ; heavy weights, sd.