SOUTHERN PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 220, 17 September 1930, Page 4

SOUTHERN PRODUCE.

CANTERBURY MARKETS: • (By Telegraph;— Press Association,).

U V. CHRISTCHtfRCH, Tuesday; ''* Thevpresent is one 6t the,quietest times .. experienced on the local gram ancl-wo-business is .in' potatoes. - The, Wmgatm M left Lyttelton on Monday night ™th^6263 •sacks of potatoes for Auckland, and, prior ■ to her ls£k at Lyttelton, had_26oo sacks :■ .. on board from Timaru. Next Friday^ t e ' Kafetu will take 4000 -sacks, or Perhaps B : more, from Lyttelton for Auckland, and the Waimarino wi;i take further supplies fromLyttelton -and, Timaru, for Anckland . .on Monday or Tuesday next. -To-day s price to farmers is; at, >2 10/ . to £2 12/6 ato non trucks, Wellington m said, to be; well;stocked with -Dakotas at ' !pr The nt "price of oatsheaf chaff remains ' 'unchanged,' but; there is more offenng^now than 'for some "time previously. ( . 10-day s quotatiou-is £4-15/ to. £s:a ton on trucks for good bright^''• ■' - : ;'. ■ '■.- .■-*.■■■ There is practically nothing doing locally . .in barley, but Auckland■('iiierohants-. are getting supplies from Australia and selling , ; i; for.fowl feed. , i ■ '■•■ i - ■ Fowl wheat is selling in Christchurch: at ' < 6/2 f.0.b.. Among other places it goes to Wellington and Auckland. Wellington - /sells it 7/4 to 7/6, while the Auckland . , price is 8/. , ■