CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1932, Page 4

CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

MORE LIFE IN MARKETS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. There has teen more life in the produce market during the last few daj's than for a long time. Potatoes have further advanced. Prompt deliveries are quoted to-day at £5 17/6, f.0.b., s.i., Junes, £6, and Julys, £6 15/. A fair amount of business has taken place in prompt and Juno deliveries. August-September deliveries are quoted at £7 10/. The Waipiata sailed on Saturday night with approximately 12,000 sacks from all Southern ports. She will arrive in Auckland to-morrow. The Wairaarino is due to sail to-night with only a small consignment of a few hundred sacks from Lyttel- ' ton and 800 from Timaru. Prices to farmers for prompt potatoes are £5 a ton. ; l'armer3 are not very keen sellers at this price.

Onions have met with a meteoric rise since the week-end. They advanced in quick stages from £11 to £12 and then £13 a ton f.0.b.. s.i., and sales arc reported to have taken place at up to £14, with sellers asking £15. The price to growers is nominally £11 10/ and upwards, but there are not many onions in the growers' hands. The jump in the market is due to the Zealand demand, as no Japanese onions are expected to arrive in the North until the middle of t S d PnCQ " to ° h ' gll for ex P° rt

Fowl wheat shows no alteration. Oats are slightly weaker, A grade Gartons are quoted at 3/ a bushel on trucks B grade Cartons at 2/9 and Algerians at