SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 7, 12 February 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current — Wholesale — Butter (farm), 5d to 6d; butter (factory) bulk, lid; pats 1/- cash, l/0i booked. Eggs, 1/- per doyen. Cheese (factory), 6£d. Hams, 9d. Barley, 2/- to 2/6. Chaff, £5. Flour, £13 to £14. Oatmeal, £13 10/- to £14. Bran, £6. Pollard, £6 10/-. Retail— Fresh butter, 7d to 8d ; butter (factory), pats, 1/2 ; bulk, 1/1. Eggs, 1/2 per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Flour. 2001 b, 28/- ; 501t>. 7/6. Oatmeal : 501t), 8/- ; 251 b, 4/Pollard, 10/9 per bag. Bran, 7/-. Chaff, 8/-. Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. (Limited) report as follows :—: — We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a full catalogue to a good attendance of buyers. With the exception of oats, for which there was only moderate competition, nearly all the lines on offer were quitted at fairly satisfactory values. Prices ruled as follows :—: — Oats. — The demand for milling and good export lines has been extremely quiet during the past week. Owing to the new crop being now offered at northern ports, buyers are not disposed to operate except for actual orders, and in consequence of several large lines being put on the market here at reduced values, it has been impossible to effect sales on the basis of late quotations. We quote : Prime milling, 2/5 to 2/6 ; good to best feed, 2/3 to 2/4£ ; medium, 2/- to 2/2 ; inferior, 1/6 1/10 per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — Millers' requirements are at present extremely small, and are, in most cases, readily filled with small lots of northern velvet. Other kinds are for the most ]jart neglected, while medium qualities can only be quitted as fowl wheat, for which there is fair inquiry at current prices. Quotations • Prime milling velvet, 5/- to 5/6 ; medium to good, 4/3 to 4/10 ; whole fowl wheat, 4/- to 4/1 ; broken and damaged, 3/3 to 3/9 per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. — We submitted several lines at auction, and sold best sorts, freshly picked, at £4 10/- to £4 15/-; good, £4 to £4 5/- ; medium. £3 10/- to £3 15/- per ton (bags in).

Ohafl.—Although s consignments have not been ao heavy during the past week, there Is still a»fairst<&B SSrf "? Pr l ces arei y «»*1 to late quotat'SST Quotations : Best oaten sheaf, £4 5/- to £4 15/- : me! ££ BBB B/ O tS°£i t 'ff'~ / ; tO ,£*'' inferior and straw ch^K £2 5/- to £3 5/- per ton (bags extra).