SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 23, 4 June 1903, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET

Invercargill prices current : — Wholesale — Butter (farm) 8d ; butter (factory), bulk, lOd : 10$ d booked. Eggs, Is 6d per dozen. Cheese, factory, 6Jd Hams, 9d. Potatoes, £3 Ids per ton (bags weighed in). Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chan, £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. Eggs, Is 9d per dozen Cheese, Bd. Bacon, 13d Hams, lOd Potatoes, 5s per cwt. Flour : 2001 b, 22s ; 501 b, 6s 3d. Oatmeal : 501Ti 6s Gd ; 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 ; 50H>, £10 15s; 251 b, £11. Oatmeal. 2511>, £10. Pollard, £6. Butter: Dairy, 8d to 10d ; factory, lid. Cheese: Old, 6sd ; new, s£d Eggs, Is lOd Onions : Melbourne, £5 10s ; Christchurch, £4.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. (Limited) report : — Wo held our weekly produce sale at our stores on Monday, and submitted an average catalogue to a large attendance of buyers. There was good competition for most of the lines on offer, at prices on a par with late quotations. Values ruled as under :—: —

Oats — There is good inquiry for prime milling samples, with which the market is only moderately supplied. (!ood, bright teed is also readily quitted, but for anyr thing below 11 grade the demand is somewhat spasmodic. Qjaotations : Prune milling, Is l()d to Is lid ; seed lines, for which there is good inquiry, Is lid to 2s 3d ; good to best feed, Is B£d to Is 9sd ; medium and discolored, Is 7d to Is 8d per bushel (sacks extra).

Wheat — Millers' operations aio somewhat restricted, and are confined for the most part to the purchase of a few choice lines of northern grown wheat. Most oi the southern wheat, being a shade too soft for milling purposes, finds an outlet as fowl wheat. This is rather more plentiful, and prices a Bhade easier. Quotations : Prime milling, 4s to 4s 2d : medium to good, 3s 8d to 8s lid ; best whole fowl wheat, .'is 6d to 3s 7d ; medium, 3s 3d to 3s 5d ; broken and damaged, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel (sacks extra > Potatoes — Consignments coming to hand have boen sufficient to supply local requirements, and sales on the basis of late quotations are difficult to effect. Quotations : Prime Derwents, £3 10s to £3 15s ; choice, to £4 ; medium and other sorts, £3 to £3 10s per ton (bags in). Chaff. — We submitted about 40 tons at our sale on Monday. Abomt half of this was very prime bright oaten sheaf frdm the Lakes and Otago Centra] Districts. Prime quality met with good competition at prices slightly in advance of late quotations, but the demand for medium

quality was slack, and sales difficult to effect. Quotations : Prime oaten sheaf, £.3 10s to £8 15s • cood do, £8 to £8 7s 6d ; medium, £2 10s to £2 *Ss ; light, inferior, and straw chaff, £1 15s to £2 5s per ton (bass extra). Turnips.— We quote best swedes, 15s loose : 20s bagged.