GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 33, 8 February 1913, Page 15

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

■ ■ «»• (fIT tffiLEORAVH— -i'RESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 7th February. There has been a fair quantity of wheat offering during the interval between the present and last report, mostly froth the North Canterbury district. Ihere has been a good demand for wheat from Waikari or on similar country, and millers have been giving 3s 4^d to 3s 5d for it, most of the sales having been made at 3s 4^d. This wheat is especially useful for early milling, and invariably commands the highest price early in the season- There is not likely to be an export of wheat this season. The local price is now above export value, "but the market will bo practically ruled by the price at which Australian flour dan be landed in New Zealand. Oats are offering pretty freely, Duns being plentiful^ but they are mostly light and there is no demand for any but good samples. Owing to the difficulty of making profitable sales, merchants are not inclined to give more than Is lid or Is ll^d at the outside for Gartons. Barley is coming forward in nice condition, but the proportion of prime quality is not large, the bulk being light. For prime malting, 4s is being paid. There is a fair quantity of Cape Barley and, rye-corn offering, and the price offered for both descriptions of grain is 2s (country stations). The grass seed market is weak, and Is 3d to Is 9d is the general range of prices. ' , Not ( much business is as yet being done in cocksfoot, and the price ranges from 3d to 4d. The white clover crop is an, unusually prolific one, and the seed that is being offered is much above the average in condition and quality. Up to lOd per lb is being offered for prime samples. Offers are now bfelng made of £4 per ton for early varieties of potatoes, for March delivery. It is not known yet how the crops will turn out. They look Well, a,nd the late rain will have considerably benefited them.

Barking motor-cyclea with otien exhatlsfc will in future have to go about their business more quietly. The City Council' has decided to amend the , motof bylaw in the direction of prohibiting the use of silencer cttt-otits.