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Evening Star, Issue 19660, 13 September 1927, Page 12

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SYDNEY WOOL SALES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, September 12. At the wool sales a very strong market ruled, and the hardening tendency reported at the close of last week s sales was again in evidence for all free wool showing quality. All sections operated freely. Short, faulty, and burry wools, however, were in less keen demand, and values were distinctly easier. Greasy merino sold to 27id. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Messrs Donald Reid and Co., Ltd., report as under Oats. —Business is still quiet, and unless an inquiry comes within the next few weeks it wall be safe to say that prices cannot vary much until the autumn again. In the meantime, farmers are holding their A grade oats in anticipation of better values. Odd lines have been sold, but these are required for seed, purposes. Merchants’ prices to farmers remain at 2s 6d lor A grade and 2s 3d for B grade (sacks extra), on truck country stations. Wheat.— Very few samples aro being offered, and the stocks held in store aro gradually being disposed of. Milling values are much the same, and a few parcels sold last week at 6s per bushel, on truck country stations. Fowl wheat is n strong demand, and buyers are paying on a par with the millers. Chaff.—The wet weather has interfered with cutting operations, and prices m consequence realised during the tveek cannot be taken as a guide of the future market. The demand in the city is never more than equal to the supply P.rime quality alone commands attention, and this is saleable from £5 to £5 5s per ton, ex trucks (sacks extra). Medium and inferior are rarely inquired for, and prices range from £3 10s to £4 10s (sacks extra), ex store. ' Potatoes.—Merchants are still buying from hand to mouth. The local produce merchants consider that potatoes are much harder to sell now than they were a few years ago. This, in view of the increased population, is hard to understand, but the fact remains that the tubers are not so readily disposed of. The quality offering this year is not up to last year’s standard, and in consequence second-grade and spotted lines are accumulating in store. Best tables are worth to £5 (sacks in), ex truck Dunedin.