SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 36, 4 September 1902, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

There is practically no change to record in the oat market. Sales are restricted to small parcels fon Australia. Present prices equal 2s 3d on trucks (sacks extra, up country) or 2s Bid f.o.b. InTercargill prices current — Wholesale — Butter (farm), 9d; butter (factory), bulk. Is 3d ;pats Is 3d cash, Is 3id booked ; eggs, 7d per dozen ; cheese (factory), ssd; bacon

farm, 6d ; do, rolled, farm, 7d ; hams, 9d ; potatoes, £3 10s per ton, bags weighed in ; barley, 2s to 2s 6d chaff, £4 ; flour, £11 10s to £12 10s ; oatmeal, £13 10s to £14 ; bnan, £6 ; pollard, £6. Retail.— Fresh butter,, lid. Is ; butter (factory), pats, Is 5d ; bulk, Is sd. Eggs, 9d per doz. Cheese, 7d. Bacon (rolled), 9d. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, £4 10s per ton ; 5s cwt. Flour, 2001 b, 25s ; 501 b, 7s 3d. Oatmeal, 501 b, 8s ; 251 b, 4s. Pollard, 10s pen bag. bran, 7s ; chaff, 2s 3d.

Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report as follows :—: — We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when wo submitted a full catalogue to a good attendance of buyers. Taere was fair competition for most of the lines on offer, and late va:ues were well maintained thnouighout. Oats. — The demand for shipment is confined) for the most part to oats of sound quality, bright lines being preferred. Medium and discolored lots do not receive the same attention, and are not so readily quitted. Prime milling and seed lines are in fair demand. We quote . Seed lines, 2s 9d to 2s lid ; prime milling,, 2s 7d to 2s 8d ; good to best feed, 2s 5d to 2a 6£d ; inferior and medium, 2s to 2s 4d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.— Prime milling quality continues to meet with most demand from millers, and the tone of the market for all classes of wheat ia slightly improved. Medium quality has had rather, more demand, and fowl wheat is somewhat scarca, and was well inquired for on Monday. We quote : Prime milling, 4s to 4s 4d ; medium to good, 3s 4d to 3s lOd ; whole fowl wheat, 3s Id to 3s 3d ; broken and damaged, 2s 9d to 3s per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. — Fair sales have been mado during the week, and local stocks are much reduced. Buyers have been also operating freely in tho northern districts), and this has tended to keep the market very firm. We quote : Prime Derwents,£3 17s Gd to £4 2s 6d ,v, v medium, £3 10a to £3 15s ; other sorts, £2 10s to £3 10s per ton (sacks in). Chaff — There is still a fair supply of mediium quality offering, but tho market is- barely supplied with prime oaten sheaf. For this clas9 there is a good demand, and all coming forward is sure of ready sale at satisfactory prices. We quote : Prime oaten sheaf, £4 5s to £4 10s; choice, to £4 15s ; medium to good, £3 5s to £4 ; inferior and straw chaff, £2 to £2 15s. Turnips. — Best swedes sold at 17s to 18s per ton, loose, ex truck.