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New Zealand Times’ Office, Friday Evening. Laery and Co. report prices for the past week :—Potatoes, 65a to 65a; oats, Is 11 d to 2s Id ; pollard, 85s ; bran, 70s; oaten sheaf ohafl, 80s ; oatmeal, £ll ; maize, 3a to 3s 4d, nominal; vheat, 3s Id ; fowls' wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; malting barley, 3s to 3s 64 ; beans, 3i to 3s 3d ; peas, 3s ; pearl barley, £l7; flour, £8 15s to £9; bacon, Dimock's cure, 7d ; hams, 9d ; cheese, to 4Jd for large size ; eggs, -2s; turkeys, 7a ; geese, 5s 6d; ducks, 3s 9d ; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s per pair ; figs, 7s and 22s ; new dates 5Jd, old ditto 4Jd ; apples, 4s to 8s 6d ; Barcelona nuts, 6Jd ; almond nuts, OJd; peanuts, oranges, 3s 6d to6s’6d,; lemons, 17s to 18s ; cocksfoot grass seed, 3d to 3f : d ; rye grass seed, 4s to 5s ; rape seed, 16s ; flax, £l7 to £lB ; butter, farm 6d to 7d, factory lid ; butter, salt 6d to ,7d ; onions. 90s to 100 s. AtMeairs Freeman R. Jackson and Co.’s sale at Palmerston Norsh on Thursday there was a large entry of stock, and with a good attendance prices showed a distinctly upward tendency. Two ta 2J-year-old steers brought £2 7s to £2 10s ; 18-moutha-old steers, £1 10s ; fat ewes, 7s£d to 8s 7d ; store wethers, 9a; ewes in lamb, 6s to 7s; woolly lambs, 4s Gd to 5s 3d ; shorn lambs, 2s 6d to ss. Mr Baker’s stnd of thoroughbred mares were offered, but failed to command reserves. Draught horses realised £l4 to £lslos.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8968, 19 April 1890, Page 2
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