TIMARU MARKETS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13710, 18 April 1910, Page 9

TIMARU MARKETS.

A for. - lines of wheat have changed hands during the inx-k, t>ut busiuirss is by no means brisk. Farmers who i:uv<.! gjrxi wheat to offer are asking ■lo per oujahel for it, but neither millers nor merchant are prepared to give this, i'or fair average samples 3» k\ is being oift-rtil, but tor really prime milling -wheal '.is Ski, •delivored at Tiniaru. can be obtained. A very large proportiou of the wheat offering is of only second quality, ami as tiiero is no tlemund for this at present, it Is hard, to say what is the value of it. Thcro is far too much of it to permit of it all being used as fowl 'wheat. uiJ ■what is waiited is a market for this second quality grain. The oats market is fairly quiet, and growers are asking more than merchants are prepared to give. Values at present are Is Kkl for prime, m<l Is Bd to Is 9<l for lower grade. Merchants say that they can get better quality oats i'roni Southland at a lower price than is being asked in South Canterbury. A quiet business is passing on the potato market. The price- quoted is £3 os per ton, at country stations. A fair quantity is being shipped to Auckland on consign nient, but most of ,ne North libnd orders are- being filled from Oair.aru, where, the potatoes are freer fronj disease, than they ar© in South Canterbury-