CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 141, 11 December 1929, Page 16

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, 10th December.

The grain and produce market is very iguiet at present, with interest chiefly in the possibilities* o£ the crops of next seaBon. In regard to cereal crops the general impression is that the recent rains have ■wrought a big improvement, and the newseason's supply will not be as short as had been anticipated earlier.

Wheat, especially, has benefited, and prospects are quite good, while oats have benefited also, though to a lesser extent. Quotations in each case show no change.

Chaff stocks are light, but the demand continues quiet. On truck values are up to £5 17s 6d per ton, and f.0.b., s.i. to £7: 17 d 6a.

There is still a small quantity of old potatoes in the stores at Lyttelton and Timaru, and buyers for them are very hard to find. A fair amount of business is being: done with the farmers in next season's crop. The prices are £3 15a to £3 17s 6d a ton on trucks for Whites and £i for Dakotas.

Pollard and bran prices are. unchanged, -with the market steady for the former. Sales of bran are more restricted as the weather becomes warmer.

The rain experienced during the last two weeks or so has also improved the prospects for all classes of seeds in which a heavy shortage was formerly anticipated. Now; however, it would seem that the shortage will not be so general, and a firm market all round is anticipated.

The price of "pool" wheat is fixed at 6s 6d f.0.b., s.i. There is a good inquiry for good fowl wheat at 5s lid f.o.b.