CANTERBURY MARKETS.
POTATO DEALS END.
Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 13.
The Canterbury potato market lias vir-. tuaily ended. North Island merchants have informed Christchurch merchants that, with potatoes bought earlier and not yet delivered, and stocks on hand, they have sufficient supplies to see them through till the new crop cvnncs on the market, which is expected to bo about the middle of October. Hopes that a market would be found in South America to help growers dispose of at least some of their surplus crop have not been realised. Inquiry was. received m New Zealand from South America for 7000 tons. The price was favourable and suitable arrangements could have been made about payment, but it is reported that all efforts to secure freight have been unsuccessful. The Wheat Committee has fixed the final date for acceptance of 1939-40 wheat at November 30, and any grower whoso wheat has not been received by that date cannot market it as this season’s. It is estimated that about 300,000 bushe’s out of New Zealand’s 8,000,000 bushels have vet to be marketed. Chaff, of which there is a fair supply, with no demand, has shown a weakening tendency, the nominal quotation being £5 a ton.
Other produce and seed markets are unchanged.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 14 September 1940, Page 10
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211CANTERBURY MARKETS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 14 September 1940, Page 10
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