MINING NEWS
Cluttia River Dredge.—For the week ended on Friday the Clutha River dredge operating at Alexandra worked 65 hours and recovered 68 ounces. Scott Bros., produce merchants and commission agents, registered egg and onion merchants, report Eggs. Pay ora values for week ended June 16 will be — heavy, 3s Id; standard, 2s lid; medium, 2s 9d; pullets’, 2s 4d Butter. We are licensed to handle consignments. Value to Is Id per lb. Poultry: Light condition, 2s 3d to 3s each; medium condition, hens. 3s 6d to 4s each; heavy breeds, 5s to 6s each; geese, 4s to 5s each; turkeys, Is to Is 3d per lb, live weights; ducks, 3s 9d to 4s 6d each. Potatoes; Price order 196 operates as from March 1, fixing values at £8 5s for King Edward and £7 15s, fob. s.i., for Whites. Whole fowl wheat. 24s' per sack. Chaff: Prime oaten sheaf, £7 15s per ton, ex‘truck, bags extra. Whole maize; Limited supplies available. Ovster grit, 6s 6d per 1001 b bag. Straw. Wheaten, 3s per bale; oaten, 3s 3d per bale, ex store. Canterbury onions: Scarce 17s per cwt. Lucerne meal, 12s 6d per sack P We stock meatmeals, chickfoods, ovster grit, culmings for stock. Oat dust, 5s 6d per sack. We have a limited supply of barley dust. All eggs graded to reflation. Payments weekly.—June 19, 1J44.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25566, 20 June 1944, Page 2
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