CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1927, Page 4

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHKISTCHUJRC« T Tuesday. of^rSu^o^ 6 **? 0 - 68 ia most branches toaWointing. In a number of dbtritte Peing. dug tBiB year. To wlmt < \tvtit tl»t> » problematical. Last m**oa Ok rief,.-,] » very high average yield of t.nis to f 143,781 tons. Of this ftaeotitjr %000 tons went to Svdncy («„-. -teg a of 126,000 tow for Kew Z^ha^ eOD * OD ?P tl '<»»- TMs season the estimated area ie larger 24,500 acres, and on present indications a yield of 4% tons w file Brest that can be expected. Some growers on their own experience regard this as an ever-esthnate, but it is maij}yeare since the yield dropped as low as four -'Uicrn. 'However,' on the : crpp will yield .104,000 tons or 16,000 tons lees than the supply for local consumption' last Metis. - I

There was a quantity of potatoes leit over last season, but *e agahwt this the cheaper price thi* year Jjae etimulated «oneaaption and tbe North Island haa come *n Hu market. The market price ha» improved to-dajr. AtlcMand paid £i 7/6, f.oib., a.i, for -delrraiee by the first boat, «o4 Joly deJiveries were mitt at £5 7/6 «tti AtotOßt-gepteaber at £6. Tβ* last feoa* to leave tor the northern centres the Waipiata, took between 2000 and 3000 eacte. Dakdtaß have been gold to Wellingtoa toe June at £5 5/ to £5 10/, 10.b., j.i.u- ■..;'. . Oats-were *»M today at 3/0% for B (tra3# thriEJoeh gtore for M*y, to 2/5 oa truclw. luteal A grade are quoted at 2/»;io 2/p to truelce, the f,o.k, s.i. price being 3/4. Southern A grade, however, are a shade cheaper than this. The market ie weak. ; . ' Pew ate etill firm at 9/6,Vt0.b., si. Coekefoot retain* its ffnnnesi, the price b ? a « 5%4 to 8d • Ib. - Chaff has been Bold at £5 5/, f.0.b., sJ., «|ual |o j£3 12/6 on trucks.