Exchange Sale Rooms.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 887, 11 July 1922, Page 4

Exchange Sale Rooms.

.. . » I '■ Messrs D. W. McKay, Ltd., report as follows .' i3aoon Pigs. — Wu. receive auy day, and Are paying top prioes for bacon weights, Prime roll baoon, ll&d per lb. Produce. — The market is well supplied with' table potatoes, and prices for olean, well-picked lilies, free of blight, have firmed slightly^ but interior lines are more diffioult 40 sell. There is also a good inquiry for sfeed^pptatoes, and there is every indication thtfG the supply will be short of demand. We 'recommend 4 consignments of early variety and growers with lines of TJp-tb Dates, t^Hyton's Supreme, Sutton's Abund* anoe, King Edward, Robin Adair, British Queen, Vyhitfl JEiephant, should communicate with ua without delay. Approximate ourrent prioes i Table potatoes, L5 Ids tb L8 per ton. Seed pot»*.W frum Ids pur • owt, Prime fowl wheat, 17s to 30s per sack. Feed oats, 10« to 14s sa:k s.i. Pollard, 17s 6d. Brat), 0s Bd. Sorrel seed, 4e 6d, Oat dust, 3s to 8s 3d. Prime old chaff, tB, other lines L2 los up. Pressed Oaten straw, 4b 3d bale. Prime pressed clover hay, 5s bale. Onions, Canterbury, 15a per cwt} ViotoriaDi 20s per owt. Mutton Birds, 8d per bird in kits. Fruit*— Good supplier* of dessert apples are coming forward, but cooking apples, are short of requirements. Pears and oranges are alsc plentiful, and ripe bananas yvill be available in a few days. Current price* : Dessert apples 9s to 13s lßd, cookers 4s to 13s. Dessert pears, 5s 6d to 7s 6d box. bland oranges, 17s to, 225. American oranges, 455. S. A. Oranges, 25s to J3OB. Ripe'bananas, 52a 6d. Carrots, id pet lb. , Parsnips, Id per lb. Cabbages, ?s per doKea. General- -Exchange tea, J2s 6d per 51b box, 2s per lb in bulk. Colonial All-wool Blankets, splendid line, mill rejects, 22s 6d to 32s 6d, according tc size. Gents' Bioyoles, L6 to LB. Sbaeklook Range, h5. Jookey Range, L3 15s. Furniture— Our .'department .of ' new furniture has received additional jstqpk ; including some choice sideboards, wardrobes and duchesse chests. Attention is particularly drawn tb this department.