SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 40, 2 October 1902, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill, prices current.. — Whole-ale — Butter (farm) 9 1 to lOd ; butter (factory) bulk, Is Id ; pats, Is Id cash, l-> 1 }d booked ; eggs, 8d per doz ; cheese (factory) s£d ; bacon, farm, 6d ; do. rolled, 7^d ; hams, 9d ; potatoes, £3 10s per ton, bags weighed in ; barley, 2s to 2s 6d ; chaff, £1 ; flour £11 10s to £12 10s ; oatmual, £13 10s to £11 ; bran, £6 ; Pollard, £6 Retail— Fresh butter, lid to Is ; Butter (factory) pats Is 3d ; bulk, Is 2d ; eggs lOd per doz : cheese, 7d ; bacon, lOd ; hams, 10.1 ; potatoes, £4 10s per ton, 5s cwt ; flour 2001bs 25s ; oOlbs 7a 3d ; Oatmeal, SOlbs, 8s ; 25lbs, is ; pollard 10s per bag ; bran, 7s ; chaff, 2s 3d. [The above prices were for fair average quality on Friday.]

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, reports : — Wholesale prices only — Oats : Milling, 2s 7d to 2s 9d ; feeding, 2s 2d to 2s 6d. Wheat (good demand) : Milling, 4s to 4s 3d ; fowls', 3s 3d. Potatoes, to £5. Chaff : Inferior to medium, £3 to £3 10s : prime, £3. Straw : Pressed, £2 , loo&e, £2. Flour : 2001Tj sacks, £11 10s ; 501 b, £12 5s ; 251b, £ 12 10s. Oatmeal : 251 b, £13 15s Butter: Dairy, 9d to Is ; factory, Is Id. Cheese : Dairy, 5d ; factory, 6£d. Eggs, 9d. Onions . Melbourne, £12.

Mesp rs, Donald Reid and Co. report as follows : We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday. Our catalogue was a fairly comprehensive one, nearly all lines on offer at present being represented There was fair cimpetition throughout, and the bulk of the lines on offer was quitted at prices fully equal to late quot ttions. Oats. — During the past week there has been good inquiry for lines suitable for shipment, and in these classos a fair business bas been done. Shippers' requirements

have been confined chiefly to good Bound oats, bright enough to pass for B grade. In medium sorts there has also been fair business done. Milling and seed lines have not received tbe same attention. We quote : Prime milling and peed lines, 2s 8d to 2s lid ; good to best feed, 2s 5d to 2s 7d ; inferior to medium, 2s to 2s 4d per bushel (Backs extra). Wheat. — A small volume of business has been passing, sales being almost entirely confined to prime milling lots and good liies of fowl wheat, medium sorts for the moet part bt-ing neglected. We quote : Prime milling, 2s 10<l to 4s 3d ; medium to good, 3s 4d to 33 9d ; good whole fowl wheat, 3s to 3s 3d ; broken and damaged, 2s 6d to 3s per bushel (s*»cks extra.)

Barley. — The market remains quiet, and late quotations are nominally unchanged.

Potatoes. — The market has been moderately supplied, and stocks in store being consiiderably reduced, prices have remained firm, with a tendency towards an improvement in value. We quote : Prime Derwents, £0 to £4 5s ; medium to good £4 5s to £4 15a ; inferior and other sort?, £3 10s to £4 per ton (bags in).

Chaff. — Supplies have been on a very small scale, and at present the market is almost bare. All on offer at auction met with good competition, and was cleared at a t-light advance ou Lite rates. We quote : Prime oaten sheaf, £5 to £5 5s ; medium to good, £4 to £4 los ; inferior and straw chaff, £2 10a to £3 10a per ton (bags extra).