GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 3

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

CANTERBURY MARKETS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, July 23. There has been little change in the Canterbury grain and produce markets since the last report. The demand from the North Island for potatoes firmed a little in the middle of the week, but it weakened again on the announcement by the Minister of Marketing that it might be possible to find a market in Australia a little later. The local trade has not entirely given up hope that the Government will yet do something to relieve the glut on the New Zealand market, but in the absence of a definite statement from the Minister business remains desultory. Quotation is still £2 10s a ton on trucks at handy stations. Onions are still bringing the high price of £l4 a ton, and seem likely to do so for some time yet. The Waiotapu is loading onions in Australia now, but it is understood that the whole of the shipment will go to the North Island, where there has been a fairly acute shortage. The first shipment for the South Island is not expected until some time next month. Dun and Algerian oats have been meeting with a ready sale, but little interest is being taken in white oats. Any milling wheat offered is assured of a ready sale.