DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 30 December 1926, Page 2

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

REILLY’S CENTRAL PRODUCE MART Reilly’s Central Produce Mart, Dunedin, report:— An exceptionally heavy week. Prices fluctuated considerably, especially in soft fruits, green peas, potatoes, and particularly poultry. Our small yarding realised much lower prices than the week, We sold : 436 hens at 2s to 8/6, 38 cock birds at 3/6 to 7/6, 81 ducks at 5/6 to 11/6, 69 ducklings at 5/6 to 9/1, 20 geese at Ils to 18s, 5 goslings at 12s, 28 pigeons at 8d to 1/-, 35 small chickens at lOd to 2HO, 4 bantams at-2/4 to 3/6, 2 cockerels at 6/4, 1 hen and 12 chicks for 18s, and 1 hen and chicks for ss, and 12 turkey gobblers at 1/6 Ad to 2s Id per lb Sweet peas: 2/6. Spanish Iris to 6/- per dozen bunches. Section Honey: 14s. Spring Cabbage; Choice 7/ , me. diuni 3s, 4s. Cucumbers: 6s to 14s. Spring Carrots: 1/6, 2s. White Turnips : 9d, 1/6. Cauliflower: Choice to 14s. Lettuce: Choice to 5/9, small to 3/-. Asparagus: 10s. Eggs' stamped 1/11, case 1/10, all at per dozen. Market easier. Butter: Bulk and dairy pats 11-ld, Is, separator 1/3, factory W Honey: Choice bulk s|d 101 b tins 7/-. Comb Foundation: medium brood 3s. Strawberries: Choice to 2s. good to 1/6, Waimate 9d to 1/4| pottle. Cherries: Choice 1/- to- l/BAd, small inferior 6d, 9d. Gooseberries: Green 2Ad, 3d, ripe 4d to Bd. Red Currants sd, 7Jd. Black Currants 6d, 7d. Local Grapes: 3/6, 4/-. Cherry Plums 5d 9 Id. Apricots: 5d to IOJd. Walnuts, choice Akaroas Is, peanuts, choice sd. New Potatoes: Locals 2ld, 3}d, Aucklands 2d, Christchuroh Iste 2d Greens Peas: Extra choice 6d, 8d mediums 4d, s|, inferior 2fd. Christchurch Tomatoes: Choice 1/8, 1/10, mediums 1/3, 2nds sd, 9d. locals 1/6, l/101d. Rhubarb: 3|d. Cheese • Mediums 8 Id. Tea: 51b boxes broken l orange pekoe 2/6. Beeswax : 1/6. Horsehair 1/10. Bacon : Medium rolls 1/I|, choice 1/3J. Bacon Pigs: BJd. porkers B|d, heavyweights 6Jd. choppeng 4d Apples : Stunners, choice 12/6, Doughertys 12/6, Canadian Deliciuus 21/-. Lemons: Choice Californians 300/360& Festive Brand 31/6, Mission 33a. Oranges: Sydney Valencies 19b, 22/6, Adelaide Valencias 255, American navels 41s. Old Potatoes: Finished for the season. Pig Potatoes 30s. Onions: Californians choice 20s, as landed 17/6, Melbournes 16/6. Meatmeal—lBs cwt. •Oyster Grit—B/6. Fat: Best mutton 26/-, other fats from 19/- to 24/- per cwt. Molasses: In tins 9/6. Economic Egg Crates: 20 dozen 16s. Champion 18/6. Fowl Wheat: to Bs. Oats: A grade to 3/6, B to 3/-. Palmer's chick food : 10 lb 2/9, 251 b 6/3. 50 lb 12/-. Oaten Staw 35/-. Oatsheaf Chaff: Choice to £6, Oat straw chaff 60s per ton Giraffe brand lime sulphur barrel l/H. Blank Leaf “40” : 21b tins 15s, •Clb tins 50s. Sway. Pumps: 12/6 to £5. Strawberry Punnets: Double Alb and 11b, 70s per 1,000. Strawberry crates: 24 pottle crates 6/-, 36 pottle crates 6/6. Reilly’s Central Produce Mart, Ltd. Moray Place, Dunedin.