CANTERBURY MARKETS

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19147, 2 November 1927, Page 10

CANTERBURY MARKETS

POTATOES ADVANCE. (■BT OCR COMMERCIAL EDITOR.) Tuesday Evening. At present thero is very little life in. the grain, seed, and produce markets. The potato position has caused a little interest in the past week or ten days. Large quantities co'ning forward fvohi growers have been rejected at the ship's side. This has caused a certain shortage for prompt deliveries, and the prico has advanced from £4 to £4 10s, f.0.b., s.i., with very fenmerchants inclined to sell. There is no actual shortage of potatoes, but the trouble is caused by deliveries at this period of the year being so uncertain in quality. Offerings are few, the quality is generally indifferent, and the difficulty is to get lots passed. Up to £3 per ton can be obtained at country stations. Very small quantities of new potatoes are coming on the market from the north, through the late season, which is also being experienced in Canterbury. Oats and peas show no change, aivl seeds are also lifeless, with prices the same as last week. Quotations. The following are quotations for produce, to be paid to farmers, sacks extra, except where otherwise stated:— Wheat—6s 3d per bushel for Tuscan; up to 6s 6d for Hunters. Oats—Gartens 2s 6d to 2s 9d a bushel; Algerians 2s 6d to 2s 9d; Duns, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Chaff—£3 per ton. Potatoes—£3 per ton. Red Clover—To lOd per 11). White Clover—Bd to yd. Perennial Ryegrass—2s 6d to 2s 10d pe,. bushel. Italian Ryegrass—ls 6d to Is lOd per bushel. Cocksfoot—7d per lb. Linseed—Up to £l3 10s per ton. Bran—£s 10s per ton, f.0.b., southern ports; 10s extra for smaller packings.

Pollard—£7 10s per ton, f.ofb., southern ports; 10s extra for smaller packings. Flour—Local wholesale price, £l7 10s per ton for 2001b sacks, with the usual increments for smaller packings. Price for shipment £l7 10s per ton, freight paid to main New Zealand ports.

AUCKLAND. [THE PRESS Special Servlet.] AUCKLAND, November 1. The potato market has taken a sudden change during the past few days. A week ago there was a general feeling of confidence that supplies would be abundant, but since then arrivals have been so scanty and the demand so keen that an actual shortage is feared. _ As a matter of fact some merchants are rationing orders in order to make stocks last out. The future position is not encouraging. A week ago the wholesale price was £6 15s per ton, with occasional business going at £6 10s. To-day tho price ranges from £7 10s to £B, with buyers scrambling to have their orders fulfilled. The southern f.o.b. quote has advanced to £4 15s per ton, which compares with £4 to £4 5s ruling but recently. New potatoes are being quoted at 29s per cwt on trucks, Eukekohc, with no likelihood of any sudden drop In values. The crops are not only late but are smaller than usual, and it is likely that the position in regard to supplies may become acute during the second and third weeks of this month owing to the break in supplies between the early and mid-season crops. Tw market is still supplied with Canadian onions : which, though less' than last year, aro apparently sufficient for requirements, as the price has eased a trifle during the week.

There is no change in the wheat market, which is still very firm at 8s 6d to 8s 9d per bushel wholesale. •- Oats and chaff are weak; with no change in values. The maize market continues weak. Wholesale current prices are: Local sharps £8 5s 'per ton, .Australian £9 10s, bran £5, 15s per ton, oat pollard £8 10s per ton; New Zealand oats seed, B Gartons, 4s 4d to 4s 7d per bushel; wheat, New Zealand, 8s 6d to 8s 9d;,maize, ax store 6s, ex wharf 5s 6'i per bushel; barley, feed 5s Od per bushel, Cape seed 7s 6d per bushel; m&ize meal 15s 6d per 1001b, barley meal 13s per 1001b; Chaff, Blenheim g.b.o.s. £9 10s per ton ex Store, Canterbury £9 10s; potatoes, table, southern £7 10s to £8 per ton; onioiiß, Canadian, in bags 16s 9d, in cases 18s.

RANGIORA MARKET. In'view of the Carnival Week holidays, the market at Rangiora yesterday was a double one, and there was a large attendance of farmers. The entry consisted of 830 sheep and lambs, 75 head of cattle, and 346 pigs. The business tone was an improvement on that experienced for some time past, there being few passings. A few small lots of fats sheep were sold, ewes, making from 26s 6d to 30s, and wethers 81s to 40s Sd. Amongst the sales of stores were 57 ewes and 76 lambs (over 133 per cent.) at 15s Id all counted, 59 ewes and 60 lambs at 15s Id, 50 ewes and lambs at 12s, 88 at 12s, 91 at 16s 6d, 66 at.2ls lOd, 47 at 20s, 30 wethers at 27s 6d, 60 at 18s 9d, and 70 hoggets at 26s 2d. In the eattle pens cows in profit made £9 to £lO 10s for the better sorts, and £4 2s 6d to £6 10s for others. The best springers sold at £7 5s to £ll 12s 6d, others at £2 lis to £5 15s, empty cows £1 17s to £3 2s 6d, and two-year-old heifers at £2 10s to .£3 8s 6d. ■' Bacon pigs made £3 13s 6d to £4 6s 8d; porkers £2 15s to £3 6s 6d, stores 30s to _4Bs 6d; large weaners 24s to 28s 6d, medium size 18s to 235, and small 8« to 17s. • Poultry, produce, and sheepskins sold at ruling rates.

TINWALD STOCK SALE. It was a double market at the Tinwald yards yesterday, when there was a good attendance and a total entry of 1015 sheep and SI head of cattle. There were in the fat pens 129 ewes, 62 wetherß, 22 hogget?, and two lambs. There were a few very prima ewes and wethers, and competition was animated, with a result that thfere was an advance on last week's sales of fully *s 6d to 3s per head. Tfee principal sales were:— Ewes—Three at '4os, 3 at 23s 6d. 6 at 375, 2 at 365, 4 at 31s Id, 6 at 38s 2d, 5 (shorn) at 28s 7d. 2 at 44s 3d, 5 (shorn) at 27s Id, 2 ditto at 16s, 5 ditto at 26s 9d, 4 at 41s 9d, 3 at 395, 10 at 34s_7d, 10 at 335, 9 at 26s Id, 9 at 26s 3d, o at 23s 9d. "Wethers —Four at 455, 5 8t 41s 3d, 5 at 455, 8 at 42s 3d, 12 at 44s -3d, 8 at 42s 9d, 8 at 42s 6d, 6 at 40s 9d, 3 at 4os. Hoggets—Two at 34s 9d, 4at 21s 3d, 6 at 24s 3d, 10 at 24s 6d. The single spring lamb offered brougnt 24s 9d. , Stores—The stores were mainly aged, ewes with their lambs at foot, together with a couple of lines of young sheep and a line of shorn wethers. The sales were: 57 fail-ing-mouth halfbred ewes and 56 lambs at 10s 4d, 59 failing-mouth halfbred ewes and 58 lambs at lis 9d, 10 halfbred ewes (m lamb) at 18s 6d, 29 four-tooth shorn wethers Bt 20s 7d, 99 sound and failing-mouth crossbred ewes and 77 lambs at 15s 6d, 21 cull ewes at 8s 6d. Cattle —Fat and forward cows brought to £lO, steers £lO ss. springing cows £4 ss, vearling steers £1 15s, yearling betters £1 10s, cows in profit £2 15s to £3 as.

KIRWEE STOCK SALE.

At the monthly sale there_ "A'as a small.entry of store sheep for which there was a fair demand. Amongst the sales were: Ninety-five halfbred wether hoggets at 23s 6d, 60 shorn wethers at 21s, 43 woolly twotooth wethers, email, at 265. 56 fair mouth ewes and 57 lambs at 15s 7<l, weaner pigs 23s to 28s 6d, a six-year-old draught mare realised £49 10s, and an aged mare £3l.