SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 7, 13 February 1902, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Tnvercargill prices current — Wholesale — Butter, fresh, 6d ; butter (facbulk, lOd ; pats, lOfd ; eggs, ■10d per doz; cheese, 4d; bacon, farm, 7 r d ; bacon (rolled), farm, 6d ; hams, 9d ; potatoes, £3 per ton ; fowl wheat, 3s ; barley, 2s to 2s 6d ;

chaff, £3 10s ; flour, £8 5s to £9 5s ; oatmeal, £13 10s to £14 ; bran, £3 5s ; pollard, £4 10s. Retail — Fresh butter, 8d ; butter (factory), pats, Is, bulk, Is ; eggs, Is per doz ; cheese, 6d to 7d ; bacon (rolled), 8d ; hams, lOd ; potatoes, 4s per cwt ; flour : 2001 b, 18s 6d ; 501 b, 5s ; oatmeal, 501 b, 7s 9d ; 251 b, 4s ; pollard, 7s 6d per bag ; bran, 4s 6d ; chaff, 2s ; fowls' feed, 3s 6d per bushel.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, reports : — Wholesale prices only — Oats : Feed, fair to good, 2s 5d Lo 2s 7d , milling, 2s 7d. Wheat : Very scarce. Milling, 3s 2d , fowls', 3s 2d. Potatoes : New Oamaru, £2 Chaff Inferior to medium, £2 3 0s to £3 5s ; good to best, £3 15s to £4. Straw : Loose, 32s 6d ; pressed, 30s. Flour : 2001 b sacks, £8 5s ; 50lt>, £9 ; 251t), £9 5s ; Oatmeal: 251 b, £14. Butter: Dairy, 6d to 8d ; factory, 9£d to lOd. Cheese : Dairy, 4^d ; factory, sd. Eggs, Is. Onions : Melbourne, new, £6 10s.