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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26413, 18 March 1947, Page 7

Scott Bros. Produce Merchants and Commission Agents. Registered Egg and Onion Merchants. Report. Eggs: Dunedin area selling values are— Heavy 2s 10a, standard 2s Bd, mediurn 2s 6d, pullets 2s Old. Pay-out values for consignments received for week ending March 14 will be at full rates plus 4d per dozen subsidy. Farm butter. We are licenced to handle consignments value to Is 2d per lb. Poultry: Prices ex our store during the week were as follows: —Light White Leghorn hens, 4s 6d to 5s per pair; heavy, White Leghorns hens, 5s to 6s 6d pair; Black Orpington and similar breeds, 7s to 9s pair; White Leghorn roosters, 4s to 5s Pair; White Leghorn cockerels, small 4s to 5s 6d pair, heavy 6s to 9s pair; ducks, 5s to 8s pair; geese, 8s to 12s P? 11- ! turkeys voung birds to Is 6d lb, older birds Is to Is 3d lb live weights. Fowl crates for consignors’ use, free on application. Wanted urgently—Separator butter, carrots, parsnips, swedes, all at ceiling prices. Onions—Aucklands now arriving. Pickling onions arriving this week. We have small stocks of butter milk powder, Oyster grit, pullet and chick grit. We have stocks of several brands of meatmeal. Occasional supplies of oat dust and farrofood. Molasses, 4 gallons 13s, 8 gallons 25s Wheaten baled straw, and packing hay Egg payments weekly. Agents for local, also Australian egg pulp. No. 2 standard poultry, also chick mash, is now available in non-rationed quantities. March 17, 1947,