COMMERCIAL NEWS
FRUIT AND PRODUCE.
THE ASHBURTON MARKET. Prices at the fruit and produce market at Ashburton on Friday were as follow: Cabbages—4d to 6d. Chaff—6s 6d to 7s 6d a sack. Potatoes —Is 9d sugar-bag, 4s sack. Wheat—lßs, 20s to 22s a sack. Honey—9d to Is lb. Onions Ski to 3d per lb, 9s a sugar-hag.
Apples—Delicious 12s, Sturmcrs 8s to 10s, cookers 7s 6d. Lettuce—2d and 3d each. Shallots —3d lb. Cauliflowers—4d to 9d each. Carrots—ls 6d a sugar-bag. Parsnips—2s 6d a sugar-bag. Swedes—3s 6d per hag. Rhubarb—4d to 6d a bundle. Seed Potatoes —l£d and 2d per lb.
GRAIN AND PRODUCE. THE CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The grain and produce markets are still very quiet, with few alterations in prices. Onions continue to rise a? stocks arc depleted, the quotation io fanners now being £l6 on trucks, sacks extra. The potato market is virtually finished.
The following are quotations to farmers on trucks at country stations, unless otherwise indicated: —
Wheat—Milling, f.o.b. Tuscan, 5s lid, Hunters 6s Id, Pearl 6s 3d, Marquis 6s sd. (Final payment of 3d a bushel on all wheat at the end of the year). Oats —A Gartons 3s 9d to 4s, B s 3s 3d to 3s 6d; Algerians 3s 6d to 3s 9d; Duns 4s to 4s 6d, according to sample. Ryegrass—Perennial and Italian 6s to 7s, according to sample. Cocksfoot—9d (nominal). '
White clover—2s to 2s od. Red Glover—ls to Is 4d. Partridge Peas—6s 9d to 7s. Chaff—£s (nominal). Barley—Malting, ex stack, 4s e> stook 4s 7^d; Cape, 4s to 4s 6d; black, 6s to 6s 3d. Onions—£l6, sacks extra. Linseed—f.a.q. £25.
THE SHARE MARKET The following sales wore mado on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday :
Sales on ’Change. £ s d £500 War Loan, 1/10/53 70 7 G 300 Kio*v Zealand ■ Breweries 1 12 5 (2> 1 12 0 100 Broken Hill Proprietary (2) 2 6 1 100 Woohvorths (Sydney, ord.) 0 18 1 Sales Reported. 70 Union Bank of Australia 7 0 0 75 New Zealand Insurance 3 0 9 15 Mutual Benefit (ex diw) 13 15 0 100 Pelt and Textiles 1 38 0 150 Kaiapoi • Woollens G (pref.) 0 17 50 Broken Hill Proprietary (late Thursday) 9 5 9 700 Woohvorths (N.Z.) (4) 0 16 0
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 25, 9 November 1940, Page 8
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