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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2439, 28 February 1888, Page 2

We publish to day in our commercial column the first of regular reports which will be supplied to us by Messrs Kaye and Carter, grain and produce merchants, of Christchurch. The information contained in these reports will be of great assistance and value to Waikato growers as they will he in a position to judge for themselves the prices ruliug in the province of Canterbury, which part of the colony is the chief competitor they have to contend with in their own marketAuckland—in such products, for instance, as wheat, oats and potatoes. It will, for example, be found from the report now before us that the market price in Christchurch for wheat is from 3s 3d to 3s Id. The question at once arises, if those are the prices in the Southern market, and Auckland millers declare they m\i3fc purchase largely in Canterbury, how does it come to pass that the Waikato farmers, who grow superior wheat, though not on such an extensive 9Cale, arc olfered prices very considerably below the ruling rates in the South? 'Waikato wheat-growers are asked to sell at a price slightly higher than that obtainable in Canterbury for chick-wheat. Wc trust the farmers will benefit by the information we are able to place before them this morning.