GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 544, 26 June 1909, Page 8

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

is vvery.'quiet. -.- : ,- Offerings M&3>; v 7:are;ismaUj''.and buyers'do not,appear to.be par-; v.t,W-;L'ticulai^ '?;';•*!■?;' > ■ \ f '.very '■' smallT.Btocki;. having .'.ebipped all 'their ■'■'Ai'?-';-. I;ayaflabW;supplies;!and',as second sales are now ;; v^v; iidiSs-Ut.to effect, .they; are .waiting for, a further ':"'.'; Rii 'Mbv6*in. r :th'e:/Home ; ni!irket,before making 'boxt,';'%.!vvther;'purohaseSi':.H' r : :-' : ■■"•."■:.■-■■;•" .''. V'V';' ; -' : , ; S;v:';!.J:;. s '.Thp pnce*:Pf pffal ; has been Teduced, as millers'. demand:has been. ;^;:; ! ;^';limitedvtlii!:^ season;-on account-of, pig .and. '-; '■•*'. a|fowl. fredVbeingimore ..plentiful. : ■--. ■.'.•\„i ; -V:\:.'\'. : .K' aro -in. strong 'demand .for export }:. at Jj i .■.>-- •'/-'-quotations,, but/growers r are asking 'more, and .SIW-'S'^refu^to' seUrexcopt. at'their.ownfprice." '■ 'A 5000: sacks in;tho'south has '/iV'^'fi^'teen "made-: at. is.'Bd.Vf.o.b.y.'sacks in.v'-' --",.":/.'-"-::;"'■ : i : 'f£ : :Ji ! -.j';Potatoo3; are' offering more' freely, as. growers' :;S|:W:'fj/;.'are' i noWv opening;their pits,' .but the-demand is' '&51-;<-; : . limited,'and) the Auckland -market is,. weil;Bup- •;.:.' ;%'-" plied; ; ißeports:of blight ameng the 6r«ps ,ia r yS : ;':; ; N<Jw ; l.South notiikely.fci..effect.-: the ; ; - ; . : .;: ! ./.v;11bcal market, fpr : even-if prices would permit.of Vt',-:: ';.;export, < th«'prohibition affaisst' the landiiig- of ■ : c'-' : .^ r; N«*''Zcaland.p'otato^iri'Australia prevents any. v'-.--V.i : s ; .--basino sabeing ;done. -; The : , prohibition was tin-. t v /,V; : ,; i'etltutcd.wheri'.tho blight iwtmanifoskd:.itself H : ;?.:ft'J in'New!;Zealand afow years; aj[o, .arid has -sot )'V >,'. ybeen retioved.- Only one shipment of -Tasmanian f .-i* :.;;.^;-,potatbes'lwf"been, landed at Aucklan(l,. and if iiVs// ;-.; thero: w'blight: inJTasjoania, it is considered nn- :'-;.^' r: -fair-that pptatoes.should have been allowed into' U:C;V-i;;>NeWvZeabnd ;.from': tbere; ; :: ;V" .''■'■'■'•■ -'-.i;'-: -