POTATOES 45/ ON TRUCKS
POSITION IN CANTERBURY Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The value of potatoes today is about £2 5s a ton on trucks and the market is very quiet. Sales have been made of Dakotas at values equivalent to below £2 5s on trucks. The Waipiata is loading at Timaru at present and is expected to take a fair-sized shipment. and the Waikouaiti is loading at Eyttelton, and it is reported that she will take about 7,000 sacks. Opinions as to the immediate future of the pojtato market differ, but the bulk of the belief is far from optimistic. Small seeds, oats and wheat show little life. Millers are buying occasional lines of next season’s wheat at 5s 9d, f.0.b., or 5s 6d to 5s 7d on trucks, according to stations. Fowl wheat js firm at 6s 2d. f.0.b., s.i.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1061, 27 August 1930, Page 11
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