CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 4

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

POTATO PRICES DECLINE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The potato market lias eased further during the week, and values to-day were down to £3 5/ per ton, f.0.b., sacks included, for prompt delivery, equal to £2 5/ on trucks. The quotation for September delivery is £3 10/, f.0.b., sacks included. The Waimarino nailed at. mid-week with a cargo of .1500 sacks from poth ports. So few potatoes are wanted in the North that this quantity is likely to keep traders off the market in the meantime. It is thought that Southern potatoes will be wanted later than usual on account of frosts in Auckland crops, but on the season's experience so far the quantity cannot be large.

Fowl wheat is quoted at Up to 3/5 a bushel, t'.o.b., sacks extra, but from 3/0 to 3/6% i.s quoted for better grade. Tliu i market for partridge peas is weaker, values to fanners being 3/6 a bushel on trucks. The oate and chafl markets are life-! less. A grade Gartons arc quoted nominally at 2/4 to 2/5 a bushel at Lyttetpii. The final iucrnnioiu. n lialtpcnn.v n I:i.s!r!, i-'l:-x •!■:.- to milling \vh": > fnr this mouth. Prices to I'anuei'a now are: Tuscan, 3/0 a bushel; hunters', 3/11; pearl, 4/1; all f.o.b.