Commercial

New Zealand Tablet, 5 June 1913, Page 29

Commercial

PRODUCE Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. report as follows: Owing to Monday being a holiday we did not hold a sale this week. Quotations are as follow : Oats. The market is practically unchanged. Prime seed lines have some attention, but owing to the fact that sellers’ reserves are beyond shippers’ limits, there is little business passing in feed qualities. Prime milling, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; good to best feed, 2s 2d to 2s 3d; inferior to medium, Is 9d to 2s Id per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.—Millers are ready buyers of prime velvet, and are also operating to some extent in prime samples of other sorts. Medium quality, however, is not much inquired for, and in many cases is being quitted to supply orders for fowl wheat. For the latter there is good demand for well-conditioned lines. Prime milling velvet, 4s Id to 4s 3d; medium to good, 3s lOd to 4s; prime Tuscan, etc., 3s 9d to 3s lOd ; medium, 3s 7d to 3s 8d ; best whole fowl wheat, 3s 5d to 3s 6£d; medium, 3s 2d to 3s 4d; broken and damaged, 2s 6d to 3s per bushel (sacks extra). - Potatoes. The market is more heavily supplied, and as a large proportion of the consignments are of indifferent quality, and are being to some extent forced on the market, values have slackened during the week. Prime quality, which is in most favor, sells at £4 10s to £4 15s; medium to good,- £4 to £4 7s 6d. The demand for seed is confined chiefly to- Southland-grown potatoes, and in these lines fair business has been done. Chaff. —Consignments are coming forward steadily, and in the case of prime oaten sheaf, find ready sale ex truck. _ Medium and inferior lines are more difficult to deal with. Prime oaten sheaf, £4 7s 6d to £4 10s; choice black oat, to £4 12s 6d; medium to good, £3 15s to £4 5s per ton (bags extra).