MINING NEWS
Okarito Dredge.—A wash-up of 15oz ldwt is reported for 78 hours dredging, 3222 cubic yards being treated. Associated Gold Dredges.-The return for the week ended April 17 was 2590 z from 79,000 yards in 366 dredging hours.
Scott Bros., produce merchants and commission agents, registered egg and onion merchants, report:—Eggs: Pay-out values for consignments received April 12 to April 16 will be—heavy 2s Bd, standard 2s 6d, medium 2s 3d. Values are increased to 2s lid, 2s 9d, 2s 7d, as from the 19th. Butter: Wanted; Is per lb. Poultry: Hens, 2s 9d to 3s 3d each; heavy breeds, 3s 6d to 4s each; ducks, 3s to 3s 6d each; ducklings, 5s to 6s 6d each; goslings, 4s to 5s fid each; turkeys, to Is per lb, live weights. Potatoes: Graded lots at fixed values; ungraded, noVninally 6s to 7s cwt. Whole fowl wheat, 21s 6d to 24s per sack. Chaff: Prime oaten sheaf, £6 10s per ton, ex truck, £7 ex store, bags extra. Whole maize, 8s per bushel. Oyster grit, 6s 6d per 1001 b bag. Straw: Wheaten, 2s 9d per bale; oaten, 3s per bale, ex store. Canterbury onions, 12s 6d per cwt. Oat dust, 5s 6d per sack. Lucerne meal, 12s 6d per sack. We stock meatmeal, oyster grit, crushed bones, buttermilk powder, etc. All eggs graded to regulation; payments weekly.—April 19, 1943.
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Otago Daily Times, Volume 25205, Issue 25205, 20 April 1943, Page 4
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