SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 11 January 1900, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

The Grainbrokers' Association report that the oat market, which had been rather quieter during the holiday season, has now recovered, and the demand is brisk. Supplies are still very difficult to piok up, and the quantity remaining in Southland must be, comparatively speaking, inconsiderable. A grade is quoted at 23 3d ;B, 2s 2Jd ;C, 2s 1 Jd f .o.b. Bluff (sacks in). Invercargill prices current: — Wholesale: Butter, fresh, 5d ; eggs, 8d per doz ; cheese, farm, 3|d ; bacon, farm, 7d ; do (rolled"), farm, 6d ; hams, 8d ; potatoes, LI 10s per ton ; barley, 2s to 2s 6d ; fowl wheat, 2s ; chaff, L 2 10a per ton ; flour, L 8 ; oatmeal, L 9 to LlO ; pollard, L 3 ; bran, L 2 10d, including bags. Retail— Fresh butter, 7d; eggs, lOdper doz ; cheese, 6d ; bacon, rolled, Bd, sliced, 9d; hams, lOd ; potatoes, 2q per cwt ; flour, 2001 b, 15s ; 501 b, 4s 3d ; oatmeal, 501 b, 5s ; 251 b, 2s 9d ; pollard, os 9d per bag ; bran, 3s 6d per bag ; chaff, L 3 per ton ; fowls' feed, 2s 3d per bushel.