COMMERCIAL NEWS
grain and produce. SOUTH CANTERBURY MARKET. TIMARU, Oct. S. Business has been quiet on the South Canterbury grain and produce market during the last week, but there have been a few inquiries for special lines of seeds. Current fixed prices for wheat, including the monthly increments, are: Tuscan 6s 2d, Hunters 6s 4d, and Velvet 6s 6d a bushel. Little interest has been shown in cots. Cartons remain at 3s 6d and Duns at 3s a bushel. Contract prices for barley for the coming season will • probably he the same as last season, namely: Windrowed 4s 7 id, stook threshed 4s Lid, and stack threshed 5s 3d a bushel. Feed barley is quoted at 4s a bushel. Very few lines of table potatoes remain. Inquiries ore still being received for seed potatoes, but supplies are limited to a few odd parcels. The demand continues for pedigree and mother Montgomery red and white clovers, mainly for local sowing. Other lines of seed' remain, at last week’s prices: Certified mother ryegrass, according to purity and germination, 10s 6d a bushelpermanent pasture ryegrass, 8s 6d a bushel; certified Italian ryegrass, mother seed 9s a bushel, uncertified os a bushel; uncertified ryegrass, f.d., 4s 6d a bushel; certified Montgomery red clover 3s 3d per lb, uncertified 2s fid ; cowgrass, f.d., Is per lb; cocksfoot, f.d., Is per lb.
THE SHARE MARKET. The following sales were made on the Christchurch Stock Exchange yesterday : t LISTED STOCKS
v Sales Reported. d. £ s. £200- N.Z. Govt. ■ 4 p.c. Stock, 1910 100 10 0 100 Coinm. Bank of tralia0 14 10 100 N.Z. Breweries 1 13 3 200 Dunlop Rubber 0 18 6 100 Woolworths (N.Z.) ... 0 10 1 00 Placer Development . 2 3 0
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 307, 9 October 1942, Page 6
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