LOCAL MARKETS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13637, 16 April 1908, Page 2

LOCAL MARKETS.

NEWTON KING'S REPORT. Mr Newton King's weekly auction report is as follows: — At the Hay market on Saturday last, good store pigs, brought 17s to 235, slips 5s to 9s 6d, suckers 3s 6d to 4s 6d. Two springirig cows brought £6^2s 6d each. A trap was sold for £7 10s. Phaeton and pair of ponies, £50. At the mart there was a largo entry of poultry. Turkeys 4s to 6s 6d, geese 3s 3d, ducks Is 4d to 2s 2d^ hens Is to Is 9d, pullets Is 3d to 2s Id, cockerels Is Id to 3s Id, chicks 6d to lOd. Fruit — Prices at sales during the week have been as follows : — Cooking apples 4s 6d to 5s 6d, dessert apples 6s to 8s 6d, dessert pears 5s to 6s 6d, cookers 3s to 4s, peaches 5s to 6s 6d, grapes 2s 6d, quinces Id to lid, oranges 8s to 9s 6d, mandarins 3s to Bs, bananas 6s to 12s, melons 5s to 6s 6d cwt, kumeras 10s to 14s cwt. NEW PLYMOUTH, April 16. Retail Prices. — Country settlers must understand that the New Plymouth | dealers sell at these prices for cash: Butchers' Meat — Beef: Sirloin, 6d, prime, ribs, sd; rump steak, Bdj beef, from 3d to 4d ; corned beef > from 5d per lb. Mutton: Hindquarter, 6d ; chops, Bd, shoulders, 6d ; necks and breasts, 4d per lb. Pork: Fresh 6dper lb. Veal, 3d to 5d per lb. Sausages: Beef, sd; Pork, Bd. These prices are for cash only; id per lb. for booking over one week. Farm and Dairy Produce. — Milk, 4d per quart; butter, dairy lid, factory Is 3d per lb. ; cheese, 8d and 9d per lb. ; eggs 2s per doz; fowls, 5s per pair; ducks, 6s per pair; turkeys, 7s eachj lard, 9d; bacon, lOd; best hams, lOd; I rashers, Is. Flour, , Grain, etc. — Ijflour (local and imported roller), 14s 6d per 1001 b, 7s 6d per 501 b, 4s per 251 b; wheatmeal, 4s per 251 b bag; sharps, per 2001 b sack. 17s; bran, 7s 6d per 1001 b; fowl's wheat 5s 9d per bushel; 251 b bags oatmeal, 4s 6d ; oats, 3s 6d ; crushed oats 3s 9d; barley, 4s 9d: maize, 6s; beans, whole 4s 6d, crushed, 4s 9d; straw chaff, 2s; sheaf chaff, 5s per sack. — These are retail prices only. Fruit — Bananas 3d per lb ; lemons, Is to Is 6d per doz. ; apples, 4d to 6d per lb. ; oranges, Is 6d per doz. ; walnuts, lOd per lb. ; dates, 4d per lb. ; dried figs 3d box; grapes, Is 6d; tomatoes, 3d; pears, 6d. . I Vegetables. — Onions, Id per lb ; cabbages, 3d each; carrots 2d per bunch; turnips, 2d' per lb. ; potatoes, 8s per cwt., or Id per lb. BUYING PRICES. Butter — Dairy, 9d; factory rolled Is lid per lb. ; cheese, 6d ; factory, 7d per lb; eggs Is 9d per doz; bacon, B£d per lb ; hams, BJd per lb ; lard, 7d ; fungus, 4d per lb.

»ril 16.