WHEAT MARKET FIRM

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 11

WHEAT MARKET FIRM

POSITION IN CANTERBURY Press Association, CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. The business passing on the local grain market is still very limited. The prices for wheat remain unchanged. One or two samples of new wheat found their way on to the market this week, and wheat is being offered fairly freely for forward delivery, but buyers are not readily found. There seems to be a fairly general opinion that the quality of t.he new wheat will be equal to that of last year, but that the yield will be up to five bushels an acre less. Old wheat continues to move off steadily. Today’s pool prices remain at 5s 9d for Tuscan, 6s for Hunters, and 6s 3d for Pearl, on trucks. The pool price for fowl wheat is 6s 2d f.0.b., but with the advent of the new crop this price is expected to drop. The demand for fowl wheat has a'r-ea-dy eased off a little. A few samples of new oats are coming to the market. For a line of B grade Gar tons 3s 5d on trucks was offered, but the grower declined to accept it. There is no sign of any A grade Gartons so far. A few lines of Duns have been sold as high as 4s 6d on trucks, but Algerians have brought up to 4s on trucks. The stores are practically clear of old oats, and the new season’s crop will come on to bare boards. Old season’s chaff is very scarce. It is worth £5 15s a ton, on trucks, for prompt delivery, while new season’s is quoted at £4 10s on trucks. The onion market is quiet. There is no inquiry from the North Island at present. The shipment of onions for Y r ancotiver, to which reference was made last week, will be sent in April. The crops are looking well. Today’s quotation is £5 a ton on trucks, for prompt delivery, and £3 10s to £3 15s on trucks for April-M&y-June. The small seeds market still lacks animation. Some white clover seed was sold during the week at 8d and 9d 'a lb on trucks. There has been a little inquiry for red clover, and a few tons were "sold as between merchant and merchant, but the price ‘remains the same to farmers, namely, 4d to 5d a lb. Good Plains cocksfoot is worth 3d to Bid, Akaroa machine-dressed lSld. and farmers’ dressed lines Sd to 9d. Italian and Western Wolths are wofth 4s 6d a bushel, on trucks, although a little higher has been paid for special lines. Good lines and perennial are quoted at 5s to 5s 3d a bushel. TUAKAU SHEEP FAIR Prom Our Own Correspondent TUAKAU, Friday. A keen demand { which sent prices above vendors’ expectations was met with at the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.’s Tuakau sheep fair today. Store wethers made 22s 6d to 24s 3d: two-tooth ewes, 25s to 29s 6d: four and six-tooth ewes, 24s to 2 Bs;__ four and five-year-old ewes, 24s to 28s 6d. This is considered to be a record price this season for five-year-old ewes. There was a very keen demand for store lambs, and the values realised were easily on a par with, if not better than, those realised last. year. Shorn lambs sold from 10s to 16s; woolly lambs, 11s to 18s. There was a steady demand for Romney rams, which sold from £4 4s to £7 7s. Other breeds of rams were neglected, and values were considerably lower than those of last year. Flytox kills mosquitoes, insects, etc., in five minutes. Fragrant—easy to use—harmless to humans. —15.