SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 37, 11 September 1902, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET

Business in oats is \ei\ quiet, there being none on offer. Ihc last sales wero at 2s B^d. Invercargill prices current — Wholesale — Butter (farm), 9d; butter (factory), bulk, Is 3d pats, Is 3d cash Is 3£d booked , eggs, 7d per dozen ; cheese (factory }, s£d; bacon farm, 6d ; do, nulled, farm, 7jd , hams, 9d ; potatoes, £3 10s per ton, bags weighed in , barley, 2s to 2a 6d chafT, £4 ; flour, £11 10s to £12 10s , oatmeal, £13 10s to £14 , bnan, £0 , pollard, £6. Retail —Fresh butter, lid, Is ; butter (factory), pats, 1^ 5d ; bulk, Is sd. Eggs, Od per doz Cheese, 7d. Bacon (i oiled), lOd Hams, lOd Potatoes, £4 10s per ton ; 5a cwt. Flour, 2001 b, 25s , 50It>, 7s 3d. Oatmeal, 501 b, 8s , 25It>, 4s. Pollard, 10s pen bag. bran, 7s ; chaff, 2s 3d.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co report as follows — We hcid our weekly auction sale. of gram and produce a1 our stores There was a moderate attendance of the local trade and others interested. The catalogue submitted comprised most of the linos usually offered In the case of fowl wheat, potatoes, and chafl there was good

demand and lato values were well maintained. For oats bidding was without spirit, and many of the lines on offer had to be passed in for lack of competition. Oats — There has been considerably less inquiry from Australian ports during the past week, and only a moderate business has been done in snapping lines' Prime milling and seed lines continue to meet with fair demand at quotations, and other j^oits are more difiicult to place. We quote ' Clean seod lines, 2s 8d to 2s lid , prune milling. 2s G£d to 2s 7id , good to best feed, 2s 4-Jd to 2s 0d interior lo medium, 2s to 2s 4d per bushel (sacks extra) Wheat— Prime milling quality (Northern wheat preferred) continues to meet with fair demand from millers Medimm has not much attention, but is more saleable than it has been for some tune Fowl wheat continues to meet with fair demand at quotations We quote Prime milling, 4s to 4s 4d , medium to good, 3s 4d to 3s lOd best whole fowl wheat, 3s 3 d to 3s 3d, broken and damaged, 2s Od to 3s per bushel (sacks extra) Potatoes — 'Moderate stocks arc held, and nearly all on oflei , if in good condition, are neadily placed We quote • Prime Derwents, £4 to £4 5s , medium, £3 10s to £3 15.5, other sorts, £3 to £3 10s per ton (sacks in). Chaff. — The market is almost bare of prime quality, and any good bright lines are readily ta.ken at a slight ad\ance on late quotations In the absence of supplies of this class, medium quality has been drawn upon more largely and continues to meet with fan inquiry We quote Prime oaten sheaf, £4 10s to Li 15 medium to m>od £3 Ids to £4 5s , inferior aad straw chafl, £'2 to £3 per ton (bags extra)