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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18591, 27 June 1922, Page 4

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> —%—*> THE WHEAT MARKET. Prwu Association —By Telegraph — Copyright LONDON, June 25. The wheat cargo market is dull. Quotations or© nominally unchanged'. Lower prices would bo accepted for steamer parcels 'f there were any buyers.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Messrs Dialgety and Co., Ltd., report aa follows: Oats. —There is practically no business passing, growers refusing to accept ruling rates. “We quote: A Gartons, to 2s Gd; B Garlons, 2s 3d; under-grade, Is Gd to 2s per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. —There is a good demand for prime tables, which are saleable at up to £4 15a per ton. Diseased lines are selling at £2 10s to £3 10s (sacks in). Chaff.—The market is quiet. There is not a great deal of prime chaff coming forward, but as the demand is correspondingly slack prices are unchanged. .We quote: Prime oaten sheaf, £4 5s to £-1 15s; light, inferior, and discoloured, £2 10s to £3 10s per ton (saclts extra). Donald Reid and Co., Ltd., report as under:— Oats.—The market is steady. There is a good demand for A and B grade. A grade, 2s 6d; B grade, 2s 3d; under-grade, Is 6d to 2s (sacks extra). Wheat. —The millers are taking only firstclass samples. Potatoes. —The market for good quality, frdm from blight, is firm at £4 15s; medium quality, £3 10s to £4 ss. Chaff. —Prime quality, £4 15s; medium to good, £4 to £4 ss; discoloured and but of condition, £3 to £3 10s.

RABBITSKINS. The Dunedin Woolbrokers’ Association (Messrs Dalgety and Co., Todd Bros, and Co., National Mortgage and Agency Company, N'w Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Donald Reid and Co., Stronach, Morris, and Co., and Wright, Stephenson, and Co.) report as follows: The usual fortnightly rabbitskin sale was held yesterday, nad large catalogues were offered to the usual attendance of buyers As a number of buyers had filled their orders competition was erratic, and prices for winter skins opened at a drop of 14d to 18d per lb on late rates, .but towards the end of the sal© showed a firming tendency. All other sorts wore easier by 12d to 16d per lb to last sales’ values Super winter does to 95Jd; super winter bucks, to 86d; first winter does, 80d to 88d; first winter bucks, 73d to 79d; second winter does, 64d to 6Sfa; second winter bucks, 64d to 70d; early winters, S6d to 63id; incoming, 50d to 56d; autumns, 39d to 44d; early autumns, 28d to 34Jd; racks—prime 21d to Slid, light 16d to 18id; small, 5Jd to B|d; first winter black, 74d to 86Jd; autumn black, 28d to 30d; winter fawn, 46d to 52id; summers, 14d to 17fd; milky does, 14d to 20d. Horsehair, 26d, to 83Jd.

Scott Bros., produce- merchants and commission agents, agents for the Egg and Poultry Growers’ Association, report: —Eggs; To-day, fresh, Is 8d; Poultry Association, Is 9d per dozen. Butter; Dairy, Is 6d per lb. Honey: Prime clover, bulk, 6Jd per lb; 10lb tins, Gs 6d each. Beeswax, Is 8d per lb. Fat, 18s to 21s per 'Cwt. Poultry: Hens, 3s to 4s per pair; cockerels, 4s to 4s 6d per pair; ducks, 6s per pair; geese, 6s 6d per pair; Turkeys: Hens, 9d per lb; gobblers, lOd per lb. Pigs: Prim© baooners, 6Jd -per lb; porkers, Gld per lb. Potatoes; Prime, £4 15s j)er ton; medium quality (over supply, difficult to deal with), £3 to £4 per ton. Onions: Canterbury, £ll per ton. Chaff: Prim© oaten sheaf, £4 10s per ton, sacks extra. Oats, 3s per bushel, sacks extra. Whole fowl wheat, 4s 9d per bushel, sacks extra. Straw: Pressed wlicaton (quiet), £2 16s; oaten, £3 10s per ton. We can supply petrol, motor lubricating oils and greases, lucerne and poultry meal, hulled oats, shell grit, Pareora meat meal, leg rings, to© punches, charcoal, wire noting, Star brand chicken food! and egg crates. June 26.