TEMUKA GRAIN MARKET.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12545, 14 July 1906, Page 11

TEMUKA GRAIN MARKET.

Our Tcrauka correspondent writes: — The markets during tho week romaiiKd quiet, but ilir.tinetiy firm. "With wtonal enquiries for wheat feelers hare been cut far wmp fairly largo- parcels, and quite,a number for «maTl pireelr. to replcaiifih millers' stocks., It is quits clear millers south do net hold big stacks, and ecveral will have, to corr.o into tho market in tho course of a month or so. Tho.ro has been pr.-.cti-oally no triioat offering for {.he- week. The few farmers holding stocks hay? n rcscrro of 3s Gd for Tuscau and 3e 3d lor Velvet and Hunters; if not able to *f>ll at these prices they are satisfied to hold, meantime boing fully convinced that the finrphts dors not exist. Tho wheAt held by merchrm-6 is Jiot- being pusliod on to tho ir.arkct, quontly it is only a hand-to-motitli I>iif- ;- -n€TB (hat is papains. There is little actual business •doing in cats, Southland discoloured ?nd •dama.gcd oats l:o----ing taken in preference to die hiplnipriced «nd bettor quality Cinterb'.'.i-y grown. Stork-, aro pirticuferiy light, and by some it i=; considered thot the local demand will use up nearly all stocks held, as farmers are buyers for fc-od as well as s?od'. TJkto is prncticaily no barley offrrhig. A few sma.n feed biice luive been sold at about 2-s Gd at country There! Lμ onquiry for fair brieht samples of o-at. sheaf chaff, but "there id very little available. Supplies of Donrcnts a-rc about nrid ennnirir.s «rt> omins in f°r s<*d- Up-to-Datcs and •white kind? are vei"y ecarce, «ind_ ihave strong enquiry. Cowgr-ass is coming in fairly quick, and prices show some wMkno r e. Winter sowing has born pushed on, the favourab'e weaih?r made tho mest of. Pricrs on. all thaw really no quotablo clianee for the week, but demand all round shows slight improvement.