AUCKLAND MARKETS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12922, 29 July 1905, Page 8

AUCKLAND MARKETS.

fIESBBS BUCKLANT) AND SONS' r REPORT.

Messrs Buckland and Sons report: At the Hay market there was an iverage entry' of draught mares and ;clcling-s which brought from £35 10s •.o £40, half draughts or spring cart -orses £25 to £30 10s, good hacks md buggy horses £13 5s to £20, ightor and git? sorts £6 to £10 10s, \*ceds and ponies at any price. Hides, slcins, tallow, etc— Hides : Ox ■£d 1o 6d, cow 4cl to 4JS<I, kip 'H cl to stags 3d, calf s^d to 5%d. Talow, 20s. Bonos, ss. Horsehair, Is Ud. Skins : Best butchers' 7s Id to s sd, Igoocl lines 5s Gd , to fe Gd, •onn^ry butchers' 4s Gd to 7s, smaller >ml damaged Is to 4s 2d. Grain, etc.— Maize, in short supply, 's Id ex wharf- Oats: Firm, at 2s o 2s 4d. Fowl wheat-, ,3s sd, barley :ta. chaff £3 to £4 10s for inferior and C 5 to £5 10s for prime, bran ,£4 15s, sharps £6 15s, - pig meal £5 10s, pressed hay £3 10s to £3 15s, straw £3 to £3 ss. Ac Remuera, on Thursday, dairy pnd store cattle were' at late values. < v at and young calves sold freely; at )eeent) \ 'quotations. ! 'Less "than the average 1 number of) fat cattle were yarded. Prices improved, ox beef selling to 24s the' 100tt>, cow to 225. Mteers ranged irom £7 10s to £11 ss, cows £5 to £8 7s 6d (230 sold). The f heep / pens were well iilled • with a pood class of mutton, which met with ready sale, extra heayy wethers selling to 30s, lighter weights to 255. A pen '. of fourj choice ewes made 345,

others 16s to 21s 6d, hoggets to 18s. Pigs were .in short supply. Small were at late values. Porkers and baeoners were in keen demand from- 4d to 5d per Ib.