GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) OHRISTCHUROH, Friday. The potato market is a little firmer again, to-day's quotation being £9 10/ per ton. There is a fair but not a big from the North Island, although ..Auckland has ceased drawing supplies from here for the time being. Not a very laTge quantiy was taken by the Waipiata when she left yesterday fpr Wellington. Supplies locally are being used up, and as is usual at this time of the year not a large quantity is offering. North Island orders are coming in freely, but the quantities wanted are smaller. New potatoes are'now coming in at" Auckland, and with the landed cost of the Southern tubers to consumers, about 2ttd per lb, many householders prefer buying the new season's supply at a trifle dearer cost. Pukekohe potatoes are bringing 3d per lb, but in Canterbury the price is about double that figure for new crip. The planting of the main crop is now in progress, and at present indications are that the area sown will be up to the average. Wheat is fairly firm at mid-week quotations, and oats have shown no change. Chaff is a little firmer,- there being more inquiry from. the North. Seeds are unchanged, although farmers' orders are accounting for a certain amount of business, and some sowing is being done. The wholesale business is very quiet.