CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 179, 30 July 1932, Page 4

CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

POTATOES UP 12/6 PER CWT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The potato market has undergone some change during the week. Values increased from £5 7/6 to £6, f.0.b., sacks included, for prompt delivery, the equivalent price to farmers being £4 15/ to £4 17/6. The sharp rise is possibly accounted for to some extent by the calling of July shipments f.o.b. tojmorrow, the last day of the month. It is expected that there will bo heavy arrivals at the port as a result, and tliese will have to await the arrival of the Waipiata, now loading at Bluff. • Her cargo when she leaves Lyttelton will be n heavy one, and, in an ordinary season, ■would arrive on a bare northern market, as shipments in the last fortnight have been very light. There is little demand from Auckland, and the big reduction to date this year of shipments from Lyttelton indicates a heavy decline in consumption. The Wingatui during the middle of the week took only 2000 sacks from Canterbury ports, so supplies in Auckland have every chance to clear. Prompt values to-day are £5 17/6 to £6, and August-September, £G 12/6. Canterbury yields still continue light, although some districts provide exceptions. Fowl -wheat is meeting with more inquiry, and is not easy to pick up. Sales have taken place at 4/10, f.0.b., eacks excluded. ■ The chaff market is still lifeless. Quotgtions to farmers are from £3 12/6 cSudel: '' a > tori ' or £5 > i -° :b - sack* in-