GRAIN AND PRODUCE
CANTERBURY MARKETS. LOW PRICES FOR POTATOES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 2. The August increment of Id a bushel has gone on to all wheat making prices as follows: Tuscan 5s lOgd, Hunters, 6s Old, Pearl Gs 2£d, and Marquis 6s 31d. The second shipment of 1000 tons of potatoes for Australia has been arranged. leaving 3000 tons to be sent away in September or later. The local market remains very dull with no improvement on the low prices whicn have been ruling. A heavy shipment left for the North Island this week and supplies now in sight should keep the market there amply supplied for the remainder of the month. A vessel took 9300 sacks from Timaru and 2500 from Lyttelton. Both growers and merchants are anxiously awaiting the Government’s statement in reply to a deputation which waited on it to ask for a minimum price.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1940, Page 9
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150GRAIN AND PRODUCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1940, Page 9
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