CANTERBURY MAKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 6

CANTERBURY MAKETS.

POTATOES FOR MONTH VIDECT. (By Telegprapbi—Press Association.) CimieTGHURCH, Friday. The Matatua sailed during: the week Tor South America with 5700 sacks or potatoes. The shipment is the fonrtn this year to Aronte video, and it is the- lrnai one. The total: quantity sent is approximately 1500 tons.. Though the market for potatoes is quiet there is- no decline in prices. The undry crop cannot be taken into estimation to a great extent since-the last , two rains In providing" supplies from now on, and : growers- are not inclined to open tneir pits unless at substantial: advance. A few small Tots . have been, bong-lit during the week at £5 to/ on trucks:, Shipments north, this-weet have been ■ nil, and the -Kaituna's small, cargo of 3050! sacks a week asro, and tin; unlikelihood of the Kaiapoi, which is booked lo sail on Monday, taking: ;many should . cieaT-flecks irr the north. 1 Sydney quotations-- are coming- to hand on a- basis or up to £9 r.0.b., a.i., Lytteiton'.' The Koromiko is sailing' direct to-day or to-morrow with about 5000 sacks, and the Walkouaiti 'Is taking: some- from Timaru. ■'

Oats are dull to.the point of uTelessness. The offers or a week ago have not been maintained. A disappointing bulk of oats is/ going into consumption, and there is little, m the outlook of an encouraging nature- to holders. Quotacons are 4/2 i'.O-b,,. s.L, for A.'s,.and 3/10 lor B's. ■ . .

Partridge peas; are- Arm, the English position being:- steady, but the export gTade m farmers' Hands Is In small compass. Up to 5/0 on trucks is being offered Tor this quality. - - ; Trie fowl wheat market is quiet, quotations being quiet at 6/11 f.oii., ex sacks. The seed market has been more or less in a state or suspension during the wet*. Values are unaltered.