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WHOLESALE PRICES, YESTERDAY ’8 QUOTATIONS. (Special to “Northern Advocate.’') AUCKLAND, This Day. The following prices were quoted on the wholesale market yesterday: — Butter. —First grade factory, hooked, 1/64 per lb, and 1/6 for prompt cash. Second grade factory, booked, 1/44 per lb, and 1/4 per lb for prompt cash. Farmers’ separator, .1/1 per lb. Cheese. —First grade factory, medium size, mild, 9”d to 10Jd per lb net; loaf, Hid per lb net. Chesdale, 61b bars, 1/3 per jmund; 7oz packets, 9/6 per dozen.
Bacon. —Hams, 1/1 per lb; rolled hams, 1/3 per lb; honed hams, 1/4 per lb. Bacon: Sides, 1/ to 1/1 lb; rolled sides, 1/2 lb; Middles, 1/3 per lb; shoulders, 9d per lb. Lard, bulk, 9d per lb; pats, lOd per lb. Flour. —Local, 2001 b sacks, £lB per ton; 100’s, £lB 15/ per. ton; 50’s, £l9 5/ per ton; 25’s, £2O per ton; 124’s, £2O 17/6 per ton; 64’s, £2l 17/6 per ton. Southern; 2001 b sacks, £lB per ton; 100’s, £lB 15/ per ton; 50’s, £l9 per ton; 25’s, £l9 10/ per ton; 124’s. £2O 5/ per ton; 6-I’s, £2O 17/6 per ton, all less 24 per cent discount. Linseed. —Whole, ■ 22/ per ewt; ground, 23/ per 1001 b. Malt. —Crushed, 12/ bushel; whole white, 12/ per bushel; whole black, 14/9 per bushel. Twines. —Seaming, 3/9 per lb; binder, 8d per lb. Peameal.—l2/ per 1001 b. Linseed Oil Cake Nuts. —15/ per 1001 b.
Linseed Meal.—l 7/ per 100 Kb. Bluestone. —38/ per cwt. Supplies very abort temporarily. Sharps and Bran.—Mill prices: Sharps, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 pel ton. Merchants' quotations, ex store; Southern and Australian pollard, £lO 10/ to £lO 15/; bran, £8 10/. Oats.—Feed: B Gar tons, 4/9 per bushel; A Gartons, 5/; clipped Dunns, 6/3 to 6/6; clipped Algerians, 5/9; clipped Gartons, 5/3. Fowl Wheat. —7/8 to 7/9 per bushel. Maize.—6/6 per bushel. Barley.—Feed, 5/9 per bushel. Seed: Cape barley, 6/6 per bushel. Maize Meal.—l4/6 per 1001 b. Barley Meal.—l 3/ per 1001 b. •Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £lO 10/ per ton,Blenheim or Canterbury. Potatoes.—Prime Canterbury, £l2 10/ per ton. Onions. —Local, 17/ to 17/6 per cwt; Japanese, 17/6. . TALLOW, APPLES, HEMP, ETC. ■ HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLE. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated August 17, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London:— Tallow. —There was a fair demand at auction, but the market is now quiet. Present quotations for spot are: — Mutton: Fine, 41/ to 41/6 per cwt; fair to good, 38/ to 40/; dark to dull, 36/ to 37/. Beef: Sweet aud/or mixed, 39/6 to 43/; fair to good, 37/ to 39/6; dark to dull, 35/6 to 36/6. Mixed: Fair to good, 37/ to 39/; dark to dull, 35/6 to 36/6. Gut, etc., 34/ to 36/6. Apples.—The market is flat with scarcely any demand this (week. Less than half of the Port Nicholson consignment has (been sold. Large quantities of English apples and ether English and Continental fruits are now arriving, and are selling cheaply. Current prices for New Zealand are:— Sturmer, Pippin, 10/ to 16/ per case; Rokewood and Dougherty, 12/ to 18/. Indications point to lower prices later. Eggs. —The market is quiet, but steady. Present quotations are; — English, 15/ to 22/ per long 100; Dutch, Danish and French 12/ to 17/6; Belgian, 14/ to 14/6; Polish, 9/9 to 11/3. Hemp.—Manila :The market is easier owing to adjustments. Statistics show a large increase in stocks. Closing values for J grade SeptemberNovembor shipments are about £3B 10/. Sisal: The market is quiet. Values are: No. 1, grtod marks, £4l 10/; No. 2, £4O to £4O 5/. New Zealand: Inquiry continues for highpoints, but shippers are unable to offer an account of lack of supplies, Buyers show no disposition to operate in lower grades at prices asked. Comparative closing . values, are: Highpoints, £3s;’ fair, i £32; I‘ommon, £3O 10/; .tow, second grade, £22; third grade, £l7 15/. \
Wool.—The Bradford mills are shut on account of the annual holidays and the trade is quiet. Present quotations for tops are: —64’s, warp, 3/2 per lb; average, 3/1; 56’s, 2/4; 50’s prepared, 2/01; 40’s, prepared, 1/9.
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Northern Advocate, 21 August 1929, Page 8
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