BETTER PRICES GIVEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 977, 21 May 1930, Page 13

BETTER PRICES GIVEN

CANTERBURY PRODUCE POTATOES FOR AUCKLAND Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The features in the Canterbury grain and produce markets since the last report have been a firming in both the oats and the onion sections. The market for oats in the South has hardened, and today’s quotation for prompt A grade Cartons is 3s lOd f.0.b., s.i., for May-June delivery, and they have been sold at 3s lid f.0.b., s.i. There is no quotation for B grade, which is very hard to obtain. At the moment all supplies of oats are coming from the South, and the Waipiata left Bluff this week with about 7,500 sacks for the North Island.

Chaff has also firmed further in sympathy with oats, and today’s quotation is £ 7 a ton f.0.b., s.i., which is equivalent to £5 10s on trucks. Very little wheat is now offering, and values remain unchanged. Quotations are

5s 8d to 5s 9d for Tuscan. 5s 9d to 5s lOd for Hunters, and 5s lid to 6s for Pearl, on trucks price in each case. A fair amount of business is passing in next season’s wheat, which has been sold at 5s 6d for Tuscan and 5s 9d for Hunters. Fowl wheat is still very scarce and the demand is quite good. The value remains firm at 5s lid f.0.b., s.i., equivalent to 5s 6d on trucks.

The prompt position for potatoes continues weak, and little business is passing. The Wingatui left yesterday for Auckland, taking 6,000 sacks for that port, and she also carries 1,000 sacks ex Timaru. The Kaimanawa is due to leave on Friday, and the Kiwitea on Saturday or Monday, for the same port, and it is anticipated that their cargoes will be about 6,000 sacks respectively. The price to farmers remains at £3 5s a ton on trucks. Forward quotations today are:—JuneJuly, £4 15s; July-September, £5 10s. The onion market has firmed considerably, and at the moment the demand is quite good. The price to farmers now stands at £2 10s on trucks.

Very little business is passing in small seeds. The chief causes of any life in the market are fescue and dogstail. The former crop has been quite a good one, and the demand from America has been quite good. It is quoted at lid a lb f.o.b. The dogstail crop has been a short one and consequently the market has improved. It is quoted at 9d a lb f.0.b., for the best.