GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1938, Page 7

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

CANTERBURY PRICES POTATO MARKET IN DOLDRUMS (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The potato market is in the doldrums. Indeed merchants report it as lifeless. There are no inquiries whatsoever from the North Island, nor are there any appreciable sales, going through locally. The nominal quotation today to growers is 30s a ton, on trucks, but only in cases where there is an order to fill are merchants prepared to pay even that price. This is largely because the Auckland markets are congested, and it is difficult to effect clearances. The seasonal demand for small seeds has ye t to set in. The weather is detrimental to sowings, although seed wheat is still going out. Quotations are unchanged. The half-penny increment on wheat —the last for the season —materialised this week. The following are the prices quoted to farmers on trucks at country sidings, unless otherwise indicated: — Wheat —Milling, f.0.b., August, Tuscan, 5s lid, Hunters, 6s Id, Pearl, 6s 3d. Oafs —A Gartons, to 2s lOd, B. Gartons to 2s 6d, Algerians 2s 9d to 3s. Ryegrass—Perennial, 3s 9d, Italian 2s 9d to 3s. Cocksfoot —Plains, 8d to 9d, Akaroa, 8d to 9|d per lb. Cowgrass — 6d to 7d per lb. White Clover —9d to Is per lb. Potatoes —£1 10s a ton. Chaff—£4 10s a ton. Barley—Malting, 4s 7|d, 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.