SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 28 May 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current :— Wholesale— Butter (farm) 8d ; butter (factory, bulk, lid ; pats, llsd cash, llf d booked. Eggs, Is 6d 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, £10 109 to £11. Bran £4 10s' Pollard, £6 10s. Retail — Fresh Butter, 10d" Butter (factory), pats, Is lid ; bulk. Is. Eggs, Is 9d per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd Potatoes, 5s per cwt. Flour, 2001 b, 22s ; 501 b6s 3d Oatmeal : 501 b, 6s 6d ; 251 b, 3s 6d. Pollard 10s ncr 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, ssd. Eggs, Is lOd. Onions : Melbourne, £5 10s ; Christchurch, £4.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. report as follows :—: — We held ouv weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Tuesday , when we submitted a moderate catalogue to a full attendance of buyers. There wag fair competition for most of the lines on offer, and prices throughout ruled about on a level with late sales. Values ruled as under :—: —

Oats. — Prime milling continue to meet a strong demand with only a limited quantity offering, and under these conditions prices are firm at late quotations. Good to best feed lines are also in strong demand, and as consignments are being largely held on owners' account the quantity offering for immediate sale is not great, and buyers' present requirements not readily supplied. Values for all sorts are firm at late quotations, and, in the case of choice samples, tit slightly higher rates. We quote : Prime milling, Is 9sd to Is 30d ; choice sorts, to Is lid ; good to best feed, Is B£d to Is 9d ; inferior to medium, Is 6d to Is 8d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — There is little or no prime milling quality coming forward from the south, and millers' requirements', which are chiefly for choice lines, are being supplied almost entirely from northern districts. The southern wheat coming forward is of only medium quality, and in the absence of any demand from millers can only be quitted as fowl wheat. This is offering more freely, and late quotations are barely maintained. We quote : Prime milling, 4s to 4s Id ; medium to good, 3s 8d to 3s lid; best whole fowl wheat, 3s 5d to 3s 7d ; broken and damaged, 3s to 3s 4d per bushel (sacks extra).

Potatoes. — Moderate supplies have come forward, anc^ although the demand is barely so keen as it was a week ago, holders show little inclination to sell at any reduction. We quote : Best Derwents, £3 15s to £4 ; meditum, £3 5s to £3 10s ; kidneys and others, £3 to £3 15s per ton (sacks in).

Chaff. — There are moderate stocks of medium, quality on hand, and for this class there is practically no demand, the inquiry being entirely for prime oaten sheaf. This is offering sparingly, and is worth 2s 6d to 5s per ton above late values. We quote : Prime oaten sheaf, £3 10s to £3 12s 6d ; medium to good, £3 to £3 7s 6d ; inferior to medium, £2 to £2 15s per ton (bags extra).

Turnips.— Fair supplies forward, and market stewdv