GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1938, Page 7

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

CANTERBURY MARKETS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The only interest there is in the Canterbury grain and produce markets is still in potatoes. The announcement by the Minister for Marketing (the Hon W. Nash) that the Government had arranged to buy and ship overseas some of the surplus of the Dominion’s crop has been disappointing because of its vagueness, but it is likely to have one definite effect —that is, stabilising local prices round £2 10s to £2 15s, the levels that have now been ruling for some weeks.® Hopes that a market will be found in Australia in the near future have been dispelled by the cable announcing the Federal Government’s refusal of the request of the New South Wales Chamber of Fruit and Vegetable Industries to allow the importation of New Zealand potatoes if New Zealand imported New South Wales mandarins. Growers are meeting the market in the meantime, but the amount of business being done is small. A shipment of potatoes is to leave for the north on Monday, but just how large it will be is not yet known. ' ' There has been some inquiry in the last day or two for cocksfoot and white clover, but except for a few lines of dark Duns and Algerians, there is practically no demand for oats. Onions are still at the high price of £l7 a ton, but the season for them is nearly over. The following are the prices quoted to farmers on trucks at country sidings, unless otherwise indicated: — Wheat.—Milling, f.0.b., July, Tuscan 5s lOd, Hunters 6s, Pearl 6s 2d. Oats —A Gartons to 2s lOd, B Gartons to 2s 6d, Algerian, 2s 9d to 3s. Ryegrass.—Perennial 3s 9d, Italian 2s 9d to 3s. Cocksfoot. —Plains 8d to 9d, Akaroa 8d to 9Jd per lb. Cowgrass—--6d to 7d per lb. White clover —9d to Is per lb. Potatoes —£210 s a ton. Onions —£17 a ton. Chaff—£4 5s to £4 10s a ton. Barley—Malting 4s 7Jd, feed. 3s a bushel. Browntop—M.d., 9d to lOd per lb. Partridge Peas —4s 3d to 5s 3d a bushel. Bran—Large £4 15s, small £5 ss. Pollard —Large £6 5s a ton, small £6 15s. Linseed—£22 to £23. !