OAMARU MARKETS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13083, 6 April 1908, Page 9

OAMARU MARKETS.

(SFU.IAL TO "'THE PRESS.") OAMARU, April 4. Business has no; been brisk in the local grain market duritv_. the wee!:. Of wheat a fair mini her of sales havo Ix.eii mad.', but no transaction or any » Tiingnitud.. i.:,.; }~-•_-., n ■ .-j d. .1. For a line of *;',..» sacks of Y.-iveL is .xl.net. delivered a; tlantarii, -..as are. pU d, bis 4> <>.] was given [;-,:- .■.;'., r linos of IC a*;-] ',1-MJ sticKs resp.-etively. Sides as <r trucks at country stations have 1,.. ( j- .*•■ :.de at 4> id. 1.- ..d. and -1s 5d net. and 4s .>.! les. tv*m::ii-_.k. a. tjals a:\ linn, with sni.til oiiYri ::•'.. : .nd growerare showiri; no .-1.7 rn.-ss to quit. Bright Gartens have b.en taken from 2s _?d to 2s .xi not at countr\ stations, the higher figure having bee: given for a lino of twO sacks up* t > .' * gtr.dt-. For Duns IL. M not at a country ■ ;; station has been given. Light tec.; |fe_ oats,have been taken at 2s Id and L's _M_____________r^__________________________________________________________.

il.d. A small parcel of feed barley ! was placed at 3s net at a country station, but no transact ions huvo been : recorded in malting barley, which is : pretty well sold out. Oaten sheaf cbaft has Iw-en sold at (.-. and i'-J ; 3fl net on trucks.. Good enquiry i- being experi-(.-i.'.-'.-d for gruxs .■>>•-). anil cocksloot. con:u:a.nd_. ->1 to Gd JK- T . for iarmers' parcels, while from 3s to 3s tid has !>-en given for farmers' machine drrvssed ryegrass. Prime Italian eomriar.d> somethu-.g more. A big drop , in jxKatoce has taken place consequent on rejxirts of a <lupr«__:d market in Auckland, and an overstocked market in Wellington, and sale.s took place to-day tit Co 1-j.s and tl-i net delivered in Oaiiiaru, and £3 lis i.d net at ooun- ; try stations.