CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 170, 20 July 1936, Page 4

CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

WHITE POTATOES WEAK. GOOD CROP EXPECTED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The Canterbury grain and produce markets have had a very quiet week, with business in almost every sectim restricted, although- there is still a certain amount of interest in Dakotas. White potatoes are particularly weak and the value* has slipped further. Even Dakotas do - not enjoy a big trade, but there are enough orders coming in to keep the market steadier than that for whites. There is practically no demand for whites at all and sellers in Canterbury are embarrassed bv offers from Timaru at SO/, f.o.b. Feeling is growing in the trade that the crop in Canterbury is a plentiful one and reports from South Canterbury and North Otago indicate that supplies there are more plentiful than they were last year by a substantial margin. _ The nominal price for whites is £2 15/ on trucks, but even at this figure sales are exceedingly difficult to make. The arrival of supplies of Japanese and Californian onions has further embarrassed the onion market, which is very weak There is a limited demand for extra good quality, but the sample has to be of special attractiveness to meet buvers' requirements. The price is nominally £3 on trucks, but practically no business :s passing. There lias been a slight firming in good whole _ fowl wheat, of which deliveries have fallen off recently. The market has responded only to the extent of a halfpenny a bushel, but there is a rather better tone than there has been for some weeks. Undergrade is unchanged. Although there is a little more interest in small seeds there is in no sense vet a true market. Supplies in merchants' stores are fairly plentiful. Oats and c-haff remain steadv, although there is no great trade in them. Offerings from the country are few and this has so far kept the market steady. Good whole fowl wheat is quoted at 3/10 per bushel on trucks at country stations and undergrade from 3/3 to 3'?'