GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 September 1938, Page 3

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

CANTERBURY MARKETS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, September 26. The Canterbury grain and produce markets continue to be very dull, there being little activity in any section. A shipment of potatoes is due to the leave Lyttelton by the Port Melbourne this week for Montevideo. Mi’ F. R. Picot (Director of Internal Marketing), who is in Christchurch, states that he had seen all the grading stores and felt sure that the quantity required to fill the shipment—originally announced as 3000 tons—would be supplied. The shipment has not made any difference to the price of potatoes on the local market, which remains at £1 10s a ton on trucks for whites and £1 15s for Dakotas. The North Island is reported to be well supplied still, and few orders are being received. The small seeds market is still very quiet. Some retail orders have been fulfilled, but wholesale business is small. The following are the prices quoted to farmers on trucks at country sidings, unless otherwise indicated: — Wheat.—Milling, f.0.b., September, Tuscan 5s lid, Hunters 6s Id, Pearl 6s 3. Oats. —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 94d per lb. Cowgrass.—6d to 7d per lb. White Clover. —9d to Is per lb. Potatoes. —Whites £1 10s a ton, Dakotas £1 15s. Chaff.—£4 5s 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.