SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 14 May 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET

Invercargill prices current :— Wholesale — Butter (farm) 8d ; butter (factory, bulk, lid ; pats, ll^d cash, llfd booked. Eggs, Is 9d per dozen. Cheese, factory, 6^d Hams, 9d. Potatoes, £3 10s per ton (bags weighed in). Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chaff, £3 per ton. Flour, £10 to £11. Oatmeal, £10 10s to £11. Bran, £4 10s. Pollard, £6 10s. Retail — Fresh Butter, lOd. Butter (factory), pats, Is l^d ; bulk. Is. Eggs, 2s. per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, 5s per cwt. Flour, 2001 b, 22s ; 501 b, 6s 3d Oatmeal : 501 b, 6s 6d ; 251 b, 3s 6d. Pollard, 10s per bag. Bran, 5s 6d. Chaff, 2s.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin reports :—Wholesale prices only— Oats : Milling, Is 9d to Is lOd ; feed, Is 6d to Is 9d. Wheat : Milling, 4s to 4s 3d ; fowls' wheat, 3s 6d to 4s. Potatoes : Derwents, £3 10s ; kidneys, £2 10s to £3 10s. Chaff : Old, £2 10s to £3 5s ; new, £3 5s to £3 15s. Straw : Pressed wheat, 30s ; oaten, 35s ; loose, £2. Flour : Sacks, £10 ; 501 b, £10 15s; 251 b, £,11. Oatmeal: 251 b, £10. Pollard, £6. Butter : Dairy, 8d to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese : Old, 6id ; new, s£d. Eggs, Is lOd. Onions : Melbourne, £5 10s ; Christchurch, £4.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co (Limited) report : — We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stoics on Monday, when we submitted a large catalogue to a fair attendance of buyers. Prices ruled as under :

Oats — The demand is chiefly lor good, bright feed lines, and all oats of this class coming forward have ready sale at quotations. Prime milling also have some attention, and in this connection Sutherlands are inquired for, but only small lots > are offering Medium feed is also in fair demand, pro\ided the condition is sound, but inferior sorts have little attention. . Quotations : Prime milling, Is 9d to Is l()d ; good to best feed, Is 8d to Is 9d ; medium, and interior, Is 6d to Is 7^d per bushel (sacks extra).

Wheat. — In milling quality sales are almost confined to lots of choice northern wheat. Anything below prime quality is extremely difficult to quit, and lots that generally come into the list of medium quality lines are only saleable as fowl wheat. Of the last sort there is a considerable quantity offering, but with a fair export der mand stocks have not accumulated to any extent. Quotations : Prime milling, 4s to 4s Id ; medium, 3s 9d to 3s lid ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 8d ; broken and damaged, 3s to 3s 5d per bushel (sacks extra).

Potatoes. — There are still fair stocks on hand locally, and sales are difficult to effect at last week's prices. Quotations, Best Perweuts, £3 5s to £3 10s ; medium and other sorts, £2 15s to £3 2s fid per ton (sacks in).

Chaff — The market is heavily supplied, and in order to make sales lower % allies have to be accepted. Prices for choice lots have not suffered to the same extent as medium quality, which is in over-supply, and unless thoroughly sound is very difficult to quit Quotations : Best oaten sheaf, £3 5s to £3 10s ; good do, £3 to £3 2s 6d ; medium, £2 10s to £2 17s 6d ; inferior and straw chaff, £2 to £2 10s per ton (sacks extra).