POTATO MARKET ACTIVE
POSITION IN CANTERBURY Tress Association CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Inquiry from Auckland for potatoes, which has been small for some time, has livened during the past few days and prices have improved in con sequence. The demand has overtaken the supply, and those farmers who have any potatoes in stock are not displaying any great anxiety to sell them. The position has been similar at this time of the year for the past three seasons. It is expected that there will be a demand from the northern centre for some weeks yet, probably until the first week in November, by which time Auckland potatoes will be available. There has been no steamer from Lyttelton for Auckland since the Wingatui on Saturday night, but the Kurow is now loading and is expected to leave tomorrow with something like 4,000 or 5.000 sacks on board.
A slump is reported in respect of cow-grass, the overseas market for which seems to have more or less collapsed. Machine-dressed seed imported can be landed here at 6£d a lb., at which price local seed cannot compete. The price of seed to farmers on trucks today is 4d a lb., compared with or 8d at the beginning of the season and 5Sd to 6d last week. The market for other seeds is unchanged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 12
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