WEEKLY PRODUCE SALE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1917, 13 November 1890, Page 20

WEEKLY PRODUCE SALE.

Messrs Lobir and Box, auctioneers and commission agents, High street, Dunedin, report for the week ending 12th November as follows :—

Poultry : Plentiful. At our usual weekly sale the following prices ruled :-Hena, 2s 7d to 3s Bd, average 3s; cooks, 2s 4(1 to 4s lid, average 3s Hid; duoks, 5s 3d to 5s lOd, average 5s 6d ; turkeys, 7fd, No geese forward. Oats: Dull. Bright feed, Is 2|d, Is 3|d ; off colour. Is Id to Is 2d. Potatoes : Very scarce ; 40s easily obtained for prime. We have been appointed sole agents to the Peninsula Farmers' Association, and can supply newly-dug kidneys to order. Present price, 2d. Green pease, 2Jd. Salt butter: Very little inquiry ; inferior unsaleable; newly salted, 6d. As agents for a locnl factory we can supply very prime in linos of not less than five boxes at 8d (boxes 4s). Fresh butter: Firmer. Eggs : Not so plentiful. Hams and bacon : Dull ; 4d, 5d for inferior, to 6d, 6id prime. Prime pigs: Up to 1201b, 3 jd ; heavier. 3d, ,>nd very hard to sell. If pigs are sent us without previout advicos we have much difficulty in disposing of them. Cheese: NothiDg good in the market, liabbitukins: Firm at last quotations. Springs, lOd to Is ; late winters, 15d ; any really prime winters bring up to 18d. Sheepskins : Merino, Is 7d to 4s 6d ; crossbred a, 4s to 5s 9d. Hides, ljd to 3.1. Fruit.— We land 150 oranges and 20 lemons ex Hauroto next Friday, and quote 12s. Orders should c sent in at once.