SOUTHERN PRODUCE MARKET

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 12

SOUTHERN PRODUCE MARKET

POTATOES FIRMER Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Prices for potatoes have improved. Sales, ex wharf, Auckland, have been made at £6 15s, ajid the inquiry from that quarter indicates that the accumulation there has disappeared. “Prompts” are quoted at £3 15s f 0.b., s.i., although there is little offering at this price, the price f.0.b., s.i., being about U 4 17s 6d. June deliveries are quoted at £5 2s 6d to £5 ss, f.0.b., s.i., and July to September deliveries at £6 2s 6d. The Kurow and the Waikouaiti are about to leave for Auckland with a total oonsignment of about 5,000 sacks. To May '2 the total shipments from Lyttelton aggregated 76,622 sacks, which is more than usual. Reports of blight in the crop \ ary. In North Canterbury it is < laimed that a large amount of the "disease has been manifested. Further south the reverse is the case. The onion market has improved, and £5 a ton is quoted on trucks. Data are scarcely as strong as a week or two ago, although business has been done in June-September deliveries at Is 4d f.0.b.. s.i., A grade. May oats arc quoted at 4s 3d. The wheat market remains firm, and as high as 6s 2d f.0.b., s.i., has been paid by merchants for North Canterburv wheat, or the equivalent of 5s 10d on trucks. The millers are not buying to any extent, and their offers are not on this level for Tuscan. Hunters has been sold at 6s on trucks, there being a keener demand for the short-berried varieties. Fowl wheat is quoted at 5s 8d f.o.b. for prompt delivery at Lyttelton.