SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 21, 21 May 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current : — Wholesale — Butter (farm), 8d ; butter (factory, bulk, lid; pats, ll*d cash, ll|d booked. Eggs, Is 9d per dozen. Cheese, factory, (s{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 ; 50Tb, Gs 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, 3s 9d to 4s Id ; fowls' wheat, 3s 5d to 3s Bd. Potatoes: Derwents, £3 15s, 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, 6sd ; new, s^d. Eggs, Is lOd. Onions : Melbourne, £5 ]0s ; Christchurch, £4.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co (Limited) report as follows ■ — We held our weekly auction sale of gram and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a moderate catalogue to a good attendance of buyers. The bulk of the catalogue was cleared at prices about on a le\ol with last week's quotations. Values ruled as under :—: —

Oats. — The proportion of milling oats coming forward has been exceptionally small, and for these there is steady demand at late values. Good to best feed are also readily taken on arrival, but in many cases the color and condition of consignments are not up to buyers' requirements, and for low grades there is not the same inquiry. We quote : Prime milling, Is 9^d to Is lOd ; good to best feed, Is 8d to Is 9d ; inferior to medium, Is 5d to Is 7sd per bushel (sacks extra).

Wheat. — Local millers' requirements are for the the most part confined to prime milling quality, and are being filled with northern consignments. The bulk of the southern wheat on offer is of only medium quality, for which there is little inquiry, and is in most cases being Quitted as fowl wheat. This is offering more plentifully, but with fair export demand finds buyers at quotations We quote : Prime milling. 4s to 4s Id ; medium, 3s 9d to 3s lid ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 7d to 3s 8d ; damaged and broken, 3s to 3s Od per bushel (sack/a extra).

Potatoes.— During the past few days prime Derwents have been in short supply, and best quality could be placed to-day at an advance of 5s to 7s 6d per ton on late quotations. We quote : Prime Derwents, £3 15s to £3 17s 6d ; medium and other sorts, £3 to £3 Ids per ton (bags in). Chaff.— The market continues to bo fairly well supplied with medium quality, for which there is only moderate inquiry. Prime oaten sheaf, of which supplies have slackened, is still in most favor, and readily saleable at late values. We quote : Prime oaten sheaf, £3 5s to £3 10s (a few lots of choice q-ualitv cut on the green side realised up to £3 15s) ; medium to good, £2 15s to £3 ; light and inferior, £2 to £2 10s per ton (bags extra).

Turnips.— Heavier supplies, both bagged and loose, have come forward. We quote : Best swedes, bagged, 20s per ton (bags in) ; loose, 14s to 15s per ton.