COMMERCIAL.
SOUTHERN GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Ohristehurch, May 7. The accumulation of stocks of produce awaiting shipment is now beginning to have an effect upon the local market. It is stated; that there are 400 loaded trucks at Lyttelton, and the stores are all full, consequently any lines of grain and produce that find their outlet in the north are now becoming more difficult of sale, and then only at reduced rates. Oatsheaf chaff and potatoes especially arc affected, and oats to some extent. There is no demand for further supplies of chaff at present, as local merchants are overstocked. Tho same may be said of potatoes, the price of which has ■leclmed to about £5 10s per ton at country stations. There is not only d scarcity of shipping, tat there appears to be considerable delay when a vessel floes, arrive in port, owing, it is .said, to the shortage of men. The time lost in this way would very soon equal the voyage of a vessel to Auckland and back. Wheat is still offering steadily and taken readily by those millers who still have unfilled warrants.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19180509.2.66
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1918, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
187COMMERCIAL. Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1918, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in