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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Dec 05, 1928
Page
3
Sydney market reports show mixed price movements with a general uptick of about 2d to 3d on various meats and produce. Fresh quotations list chicken, beef, bacon, mutton, lard, and dairy items with regional notes and unit pricing, reflecting slow wholesale demand and retail carryovers.
A crowded listing from the municipal fruit market shows varied prices for cherries apricots pineapples and melons. Notable quotes include pineapples dearer and cherries apricots priced by the kilogram, with other goods such as tomatoes cucumbers and rhubarb also featured with detailed per unit costs.
Poultry market notes show prime Christmas poultry available today with quoted prices. Chickens range from 9d to 1/6, white Leghorn hens 4d, crossbred varieties 7/4, Muscovy ducks 11/8, and ducklings about 16d per pound, with other items priced per quantity at Bis Market.
Fragmented OCR text reports dispatch of sleep vans and cattle Wixions to Fort Coming Moteliish water. Names and figures are garbled. readable items include Sheep Cate Yuna Waxwana Mon and dates like 140 huen with unclear units. The passage lacks coherent details on origin, purpose, or authorities.
Porkers dominated the sale at the Abattoir with a generally strong showing for last week’s prices. Demand weaker for lean and high quality porkers, while baconers remained in demand though light. Overall market activity remained steady with some decline for certain hog types noted.
Fragmentary OCR notes show Commonwealth Loans and various securities with rates, insurers, banks, and municipal references. The unreadable list mentions Mercantile Mutual, Commonwealth Bank, North Coast, and multiple share prices or denominations with scattered dates and figures.
An OCR roughs the fish market scene with garbled names and places. It mentions Whiting and a market hour or event at Hy Mini and associated persons or entities with uncertain roles. The text reads as a fragmented report of market activity and participants without clear dates or outcomes.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions wool sales, names, and places but content is garbled. Readable elements include possible references to Sydney and Germany, but no coherent event or details emerge to form a factual summary.
Fragmentary OCR text yields no clear names, places, dates, or events to summarize into a coherent news item. The readable parts do not provide a discernible事件 or person.
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