GRAIN AND PRODUCE SALES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15858, 2 September 1913, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE SALES.

Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report:— We held our weekly sale of (train and produce on Monday, ivhen values ruled as urider:—Oats: The demand for shipment is 6n the smallest scale, and in this direction there is practioally no inquiry. Gartons and sparrowbills are saleable for milling if thoroughly 'sound and prime in every -respect. Feed lines have moderate looal demand. Prime milling, 2s 2£d to 2s 3d; good to best feed, 2s Ijd to 2s 2J>d; inferior to medium, Is 9d to 2s Id per bushel (sacks extra). Wheal: There is little change to report.- Millers are buyers of prime lots, but are neglecting lower grades. Best whole fowl wheat meets ready sale, while other sorts are difficult to place. Prime milling—velvet, 4s to 4s 2d; velvet car, 3s 9d ta 3s lOd; Tuscan, etc, 3s 7d to 28 8d; best whole fowl wheat, 3a 4d to 3s 6d; medium, 3s Id to 3s 3d; broke'n and damaged, 2s 3d to 3s per bushel (Backs extra). Potatoes: Consignments are more than sufficient to supply requirements, and ns there is practically no export demand, values have suffered a further decline. Present indications give little prospects of any revival in the maricet. Best potatoes, £2 5s to £2, 10s; medium, £1 15a- 1 to £2 per ton (bags included). GbafF: Fair supplies are coming to hand. The demand is almost entirely for prime oaten sheaf, for which values are. fairly 1 well maintained. Best oaten sheaf, £4 to £4 ss; medium to good, •£3 10s to £3 15s; light and discoloured, £3 to £3 5s per ton (bagß extra).

Messrs Dalgety and Co. report as follows: We hold our weekly sale of grain and produce on Monday, wnen values ruled as under:—Oats: Prime heavy Gartens, suitable for milling, aro saleable at quotations. Good seed lines also have been receiving moro attention. There is also a fair demand for good'heavy feed for local consumption. .Inferior and dnt-ofcondi-tioned 'lines 'are not so readily; disposed of. Prime heavy Gartona, 2s 3d: • good to best feed, 2a ljd to 2s 2d; medium,' 2s to 2s Id; inferior and damaged, from Is 6d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat: There is if anything a better inquiry for milling, velvet ear, and-red chaff. The quantity offering

of late, however, is email, and in consequence there has been no volume of business passing. Good -whole fowl wheat is in short supply, and meets with a good demand. I'rinje milling velvet, 4s 2d; velvet car and red chaff, 3s 9d to 3s lOd; Tuscan, 3s 7d to 3s 8d; best whole fowl wheat, 3s 4d to 3s fid; medium to good, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel- (sacks extra). Potatoes: Consignments have been coming to hand freely, and arc in oxooes of the demand, 'which is confined principally to local consumption, there being very litte demand on the part of shippers, who are unable to find favourable markets outside. Prices have again receded, and only prime, quality is at all saleable, and even for these the demand is very slack. Medium and inferior quality are unsalebable. Best tables, £2 5s to £2'los per ton (sacks in). Chaff: Moderate consignments have beeoi coming to hand, the bulk of which are of medium to good quality. Choice, bright, heavy oaten sheaf is not over plentiful and meets a ready Gale at quotations. Medium quality is not meeting with the game demand, and is moz;e difficult to place. There is still a large quantity hela in store. : Choice black oaten sheaf, '£4 ss; best white oaten sheaf, SA to £4 2s 6d; medium to good. £3 12s 6d to £3 I7s 6d; inferior, from £3 per ton (saclrs extra).

RABBITSKIN SALES, The Dunedin Woolbrokers' Association (Messrs Dalgety and Co., A. Moritzson and Co., National Mortgage and Agency Company, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Otago Farmers' Cooperative Association, Donald Keid and Co., Stronach, Morris, and Co., and Wright, Stephenson, and Co.) report as follows The weekly sales wero held on Monday, when there was a good attendance of buyers. Competition was very keen, and prices for all varieties of skins were about the same as last week. Medium quality does showed a slight decrease, but the skins are going off considerably. Quotations are as follow:— Selected winter does, to prime does, 35|d to 33|d; scoond winter does, 26d to 26Jd; selected winter bucks, 29d to 30Jd; first winter bucks, 24jd to 26J>d; second winter bucks, 20d to 23id; autumn, 17d to 18£ d; outgoing, 15d to 18Jd; racks, to •13|d; light racks, to 12|d '; milky does, 8d to 12d; hawk torn, 16d to 17^d; springs and- summers, y from 12fd to 14d; first winter blacks, 48d to 51id; second winter, blacks, 30d to 32|d; autumn and incoming blacks, to 24d; fawns, £4d to per lb. Catskins, lOd to 14d for best, others Id to 8d; best black opossum, 7s 4d to lis Id; best greys, 5s 6d to 7s 7d ; medium blacks and greys, 3s 6d.to 6s 6d; ferrets, 5d to 8d each; horsehair, 173-d to 19|d per lb.

j PROPERTY SALE. Messrs Park, Reynolds (Ltd.) submitted to auction at their rooms yesterday, on behalf of Mr A. Weir, jun-., two building allotments at Broad Bay. No. 1, which measured 46ft x 150 ft together with whare and conveniences, was disposed of to a Broad Bay resident for £200. The bidding for No. 2 allotment did not reach the owner's reserve figure, and was passed in.