POTATOES EASIER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 4

POTATOES EASIER.

CANTERBURY MARKETS,

EXPORTS PROVIDED FOR

Telegraph.—Press Association.)

t HRI'S 1 C H L RC'H, this day. Grain and produce markets have been \ery quiet this week and even potatoes, which had been active for some weeks have begun to slacken oil' with the departure of South American boats. Three more ships are available, two this month and one 111 August, but a fair proportion stoic C '" goes r t)lese 'a already ,11

1 here appears to be practically nj interest at all among North Island buyers ni the Canterbury market. There is some inquiry lor reds, but whites, owing to low quotations from Tiinaru. are weak. Potatoes are not offering from the country \e,y Ireely, mainly because wet weather lifts Jig Id up digging. Ihc wet weather lias also held up wheat sowings and though many farmers h-='d >aok increased supplies for seed they hav» been unable to get it in. The July incref la, pf :"" y ' ,a 1 «o;ie on to milling leat. but it is likely that farmers who have held till now will wait for a further two halfpenny increments in August and September before selling. Imports of oats and chaff from Tasmania to the northern markets have weakened quotations here and there is no great amount of business in either. The sma ; l seed market continues very quiet.