GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13111, 9 May 1908, Page 10

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

IBY OUE COMMERCIAL EDITOR.) m. • n Friday Evening. There is a firm tone in the local wheat market. Enquiries are coming to hand from the North, and in the absence of offerings of any extent from growers merchants are filling orders mainly out ot store, nt an advance on J lat<» rates. A few purchases have been made froni growers at 4s Sjd and Is (ki at country stations, the latter price being offered for prime milling, Pearl having tho preference As no supplies of oats are coming forward, orders for coastal shipment are being filled in tho south by local n.erchants. Tie .Southland crop is an exceptionally good one, and farmers a~o selling rather more freely than furifcer north. *" Oatsheaf chaff is in fair supply, but there is only a limited outsido enquiry. Potatoes are firm, and £4 is now being paid for both Derwents and Un-to-Dates. Tho "Australasian" of the 2nd inst. reports the Ulimaroa took 3720 sacks of from Melbourne for New Zea- < laDd. So far shipments of oats from New Zealand to Melbourno have not ' been large, only 1619 eacks since January Ist, as compared with 342G sacks d-uring the first three, months of last year. Tho undermentioned are the pricea paid to farmers at country stations, free of commission, except where otherwise, stated:— \Vheatr—4s 5d to 4s 6d, at country stations. Oats—2s 3d to 2s 4Jd, at country stations. , Barley (nominal) —Good malting 4s 3d to 4s 9d, at country stations. Ryo Grass—Perennial. 2a fid to &* lid. extra prime seed 3s t>d, Italian good grade 2s 6d to 3s 3d.

Cocksfoot—-121b to 131b seed 8d to 9d. Covgrass—9d to 10d. _ Peas—Partridges 3s 6d to 4s, Prussian Blues 5s 6d. ai country stations. Flour—£ll 10s per ton. Bran—£3 15s per ton. Pollard—£6 10s. Oatmeal—£l4. Oatsheaf Chaff—£3 l"s 6d, at country stations. Potatoes—£4 for Dements and Up-to-Dates, at country stations. Onions—£s 10s. at country stations. Dairy Froduc<v~Che€se, factory old, dairy sd. loaf cheeso 6}d. Butter, factory Hid. farmers' separator 13id, dairy lljd. Bacon, sides P*d, rolls lOd,' Tianis 9Jd. Honey, extracted, 4d per lb. -n-ax Is 2d per lb. Lard (p-ackete) Sd. Fresh eggs, Is lid; preserved. Is.