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Newspaper
Bunbury Herald
Location
Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 16, 1916
Page
1
The notice urges Fruit and Produce Growers to consign to the James Street market. It describes commission agents ready to handle large yields, emphasize careful packing for rail transport, and promise prompt returns and daily account sales. Growers are advised to consign potatoes poultry and eggs now and to notify for stencils.
Dalgety and Company report from December 13 notes Midland Junction yarding around 5000 stock with 3000 sheep and many overlanded from Gascoyne. Cattle at Copleys Siding include 251 head with mixed local and Port Hedland origins. prices steady to a touch easier. Sheep and lambs show firmer demand for lighter weights. pigs up modestly. Fat cattle and cows quoted with specific price bands. overall market tone firmer than last week though some overlanded stock passed in or sold privately.
Mail close times listed for Banbury and many towns including Perth Argyle Balingup Benger Barekup Boyanup Bridgetown Busselton Capel Collie Cookernup Dardanup Donnybrook East Kirrup Greenbushes Hester Kirrup Ludlow Mornington Mills Narrogin Harvey Newlands Picton Pinjarrah Roelands Waroona Waterloo Wellington Mills Williams Wonnerup Yarloop Brunswick Harvey Australind Glen Iris Parkfield Hampden Letters for Perth midnight bag must be posted in railway window box before 11 pm.
Dalgety and Company note firm London market on 2000 ton Australian cargo at 81/6 per quarter hundredweight. Local wheat supplies ease values, with samples from prime to offgrade trading 3s 6d to 3s 3d and firmer outlook expected. Adelaide and Melbourne values steady, Fagg to prime ranges £4 15s 5d to £4 12s 6d with limited old season offerings.
Prices for samples vary with oats and chaff showing demand and value changes. Oaten chaff and baled straw command midrange prices while new season oats show scarce demand, and potatoes drop as supplies rise. Pollard supplies remain short with overall erratic pricing across commodities.
Berryman brothers report dated 13 December listing prices for fruits. Apples Yates 10 128 gd, pears 25 34 6d, apricots 4s 6d to 11s 3d, oranges 6s 105 6d, lemons 6s to 105 6d, strawberries 7s 3d, cape gooseberries 10 2s 4d, tomatoes 3 to 95 6d. Vegetables include cabbage 1s 6d to 35 per bag, peas 2d to 3d, onions, potatoes, eggs. poultry lists cockerels 3s 6d to 5s 6d.
The Narrogin Trading Agency Co Ltd advertises binding twine, tea rooms at Victoria Street, and Maggitts Crushed Linseed Meal at 15s per 100 lb bag with special quantity prices. It promotes cattle and sheep lick containing bone lime and oal rock and invites readers to request catalogs.
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