WEEKLY MARKET REPORT,
Messrs Nininio and Blair report as follows: Wheat. — There i 3 still a good demand for prune velvet. We quote : Prime milling, 4s to 4s 3d; fowl wheat (whole), 3s to 3s 2d£ bxoken, 2s 6d to 23 9d per bushel (sacks extra). Oats. —The market still remains firm, encl considerable quantities have changed hands during tho past week. Wo quote: Prune milhug, 2s 7d to 2s B£d; good feed, 2s 5Jd to 2s 6Jd ; inferior and medium, to 2s 5d per busheF (sucks extra).
Chaff. — A good demand exists for prima bright oaten sheaf, and consignments are* readily placed, but medium quality is in oversupply, and is not sought after. We quote: Prime oaten, £4 5s to £4 10a per ton (sacka extra).
Potatoes — Stocks are now much reduced, and all prime lots arriving meet with a good! demand. "We quote: Prim© Derwents, £3 16» to £-1 per ton (sacks in).
DAIRY PRODUCE BEPOHT.
Butter.— Salt, 8d to lid; fresh (cooking), P<l per lb. Pigs 120 to 1601b, 42d to 5d per lb.
FRUIT AND PRODUCE REPORT
Messrs Thomas Paterson and Co., Man6e street, report for tho week ending August 26; —
Apples: The market is now improving, and good prices will be maintained for choice fruit. Cooking, 5s to Cs 6d ; dessert, 7b to Ss ; Hobarfc stunners, 8s 6d to 12s 6d; French crabs, 7* to Bs. Banar.as: Ripe, 2Jd to 2Jd ; green, 2d. Oranges : Choice Islands, 103 ; fresh consignments this week; Sydney, 7s to 9s; mandarins/* 10s (kl. Lemon*: Milduras, 12s 6d to 14s; Seville*, lls Cd. Pines, 13a 6d per case. Onions, £1 10-? to £5 ss.
Produce— Butter- Fresh, from lOd to lid; Reparator, bulk, lid to Is; milled, 9d lo 30a. Bacon: Rolls, 7d to 7Jd. Hams, 7£d to od 1 . Cheese- Faotory, 5d to sid. Pigs, wanted, sd : good demand. Potafoes: Derwe>it», £4 to £4 10s; kidneys, £2 10a to £3.
Paltry.— Hens, 2s 9d to 3s 3d ;- roosters, 39 9d to 4s; ducks, 4s to 4s 6d; geese, 4» to 5s per pair ; turkeys — hens 4 hd to 6d, cocks Cid, to 7d per lb. We receive poultry any day except Saturday. Poultry crates supplied a€ a small charge. Agents for "Eclipse" marb"ing ink (for wool packs, gram sacks, and cases), also Ross's Antidote and O'ntmcnt, and Motueka Raspberry Pulp.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 32
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390WEEKLY MARKET REPORT, Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 32
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