CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 4

CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

POTATOE MARKET FIRM. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Merchants report that business is still very ditll on 'the Canterbury gram and produce market. . , The potato market remains firm at £3 5/ a ton on truck*, and it shows a healthier tone. The Kurow leave® tomorrow for Auckland ™th between 11,000 and 12,000 eacks from Lyttelton and 1400 sacks from Timaru. Auckland at present is in short supply, but tks shipment should .provide supplies for about a fortnight. Digging throughout Canterbury is in full swing and good crops a™ rented.. The oats market is a little There is not much offering, however. A Gartons have been eOld for Lyttelton shipment at 4/1 f.0.b., s.i. _ The on-trucks price of Canterbury oats is 3/6. , , The chaff market remains unchanged, with little business passing, and not much inquiry from the North Island. To-days quotation de £5 a ton on trucks. There is very little change in wheat values, which ate quoted at Tuscan, &/» to 5/9 a bushel pn trucks; Hunter s, 5/9 to 5/10; pearl, 5/11 to 6/. There has been a firming in the market for fowlwheat and this is now quoted at 5/11 f.o.b-, b.u . There is a little more inquiry for Partridge peas. To-day's quotations are 4/3 to 4/6 on trucks for No. lis and 3/9 for fair average quality.