DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 23

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE REPORTS Mr J. Fleming, Princes street south, reports under date the 3rd insc :— Wheat ncr Husae'. per ton Best milling 3/- 3/2 Barley du»t ...105/0 Medium do 3/0 Oatmeal, iv 25's 220/0 Fowls' ... 2/10— 2/il Oaten chaff 60/— 7O/ft Millins oats 1/10—1/11 Ryegrass hay 55/0—65/0 Peed oats , 3/9—3/10 Straw ... 30/0-35/0 Malt barley 3/6-4/0 Pearl barley .. 260,0 Feed barley ... 2/6 Onions 20/0 cwt. Cape barley 3/3—3/6 per lb. Maize 4/6 Rolled bacon ... 7d per ton. Side bacon ... 7a Hour, in 200 f s ...180/0 Smoked hams ... 8d Flour, in 50's ...195/0 Cheese ... sd-sid Pollard 40/0 Good salt butter, 8d to Bran 75/0 9eL according to quality Sound potatoes are selling at £10 to £10 10s per ton, according to quality. American ouions 20s per cwt. Arrived in good order. KAR3I AND DAIRY PRODUCE. Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, George street, report paying for produce during the weekending the 3rd inst. as follows :— Bacon (roll), 7idperlb Fresh butter, Pd to Ham, 7£d per lb Hid per lb Fresh eggs, 9d doz , Salt butter ; not buying Fresh butter, good ordinary (in lib and prints), 8d to 9d per lb. Pigs (1301b to 1601b), 3£d per lb. FREIGHTS ON DAIRY PRODUCE. Advices from Wellington state that the New Zealand am? Shaw-Savill Shipping Companies have agreed to carry butter to London during the coming season at 2s 6cl per box of 561b, or equivalent to £d per 3b, as against the |d originally contracted for. THE PRICE OF OATMEAE. The oatmeal millers in Otago and Southland, after a period of fighting and " cutting," have at length come to an arrangement in regard to price. For several weeks past the current quotation of oatmeal has ranged between £9 10s and £10 10s, according to the fancy of buyer or seller, -whilst sales have been made as 10-w as £9 per ton. In the terms of the arrangement concluded to-day the price has been fixed at £11 per ton, the high rate being attributed to the recent firming of the oat market.