TASMANLAN HARDWOOD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18026, 28 August 1920, Page 8

TASMANLAN HARDWOOD.

A very lorg© sliipment of Tasm&nian hardwood is coming to Dirnedin in November to a waiting market. This shipment will be only the second received by the importing firm sine© tho stranding of the barque Antiope at Bluff four yeana^go.

Fraser and Co., auctioneers, produce merchants, commission agents, and agents for tho Otago Egg Circle, 146 Crawford street, Dunodin, report: —Eggs: Market weak and sales difficult to make. Quotations are nominal—fresh, la 9d; stamped, Is lOd. Butter: lib pais separator, Is 6d; milled bulk. Is. GJd. Pigs wanted; good baoon weights, Is 1 Jd; porkers, Is Id; over-weights 8d to lOd. Tallow: Market weak; from 35s to 453 per cwt, according to quality. Honey: Good bulk, 8d per lb; 101b tins, 9s; sections, lOd to Is. Beeswax, 2s 4d to 2s 6d per lb! Onions: Melbournes, 23s per cwt. PotatoesMarket weak; best Taieri, £6 to £6 ssnorthern, from £5 to £5 15s. Thomson's calf meal, in 1001b bags, 3-2s; 501b bags, 1/s; 2olb bags, 9s. Landown's chicken food, •prices on application. Triumph inoubators: 125 egg, £16; 250 egg, £20; 375 egg, £24 10s; 503 egg, £30. Champion egg crates—prices on application. Poultry: We held our usual weekly sale on Wednesday, when the foliowmg prices were realised: Hens, to 8s 2d; to 9a 2d; cockerels, to 6s 10d- all at per pair. Turkeys: Gobblers, ls'4d: hens, Is 2d per lb, live weight.