CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20881, 14 June 1933, Page 11

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

(UY our. CQIIMEItCUI, EDITOU.) Tuesday Evening. The grain and produce market has shown very little movement since the week-end report, and there has been no alteration in prices. Auckland mercnants are not yet showing interest in the potato market. The absence of a substantial demand so late in the season as mid-June is most unusual. Digging of the Canterbury crop is proceeding slowly on account of the comparative absence of Auckland enquiry. Fowl wheat is unchanged at 3s 6d f.0.b., s.e. Quotations. The following are quotations for produce to be paid to farmers, on trucks, free of commission, sacks extra, except where otherwise stated:— Wheat (interim payment)— Tuscan 3s 7d, Hunters 3s 9d, Pearl 3s Uu, all f.o.b. for June; fowl feed 3s 5d to 3s 6d a bushel, f.0.b., s.e., for prompt. Oats—A Cartons 2s to 2s Id; B Gartons Is 6d to Is 7d. Italian Ryegrass—ls (id to i!s a bushel. Perennial Ryegrass—ls Cd to 2s a bushel. Cocksfoot—4d to 4|d per lb for Akaroa; 3id to 33d for Plains. White Clover—9d to lid per lb. Cowgrass—6d to 7d per lb. Potatoes—£3 to £3 2s 6d prompt. Onions—£3 5s a ton. Chaff—£2 to £2 2s 6d. Flour—£l3 12s a ton, local; £l2 17s shipping. Pollard—£6 a ton, local: £4 10s shipping. Bran—£4 10s a ton. local; £4 shipping. AUCKLAND. [THE PRESS Special Service.l AUCKLAND, June 13. So far only small shipments of southern potatoes have arrived in Auckland, and as local supplies are diminishing, the stocks on hand are somewhat light. This, coupled with the firmness in the south, has brought an increase in values, and merchants are now asking from £6 15s to £7 a ton through store. Seed potatoes are now coming on the market and the first shipment is due here next week. The varieties expected are chiefly Early Puritan, Arran Chief, and Gamekeeper. which will be quoted from 6s to 6s 6d per cwt. The market is still dependent upon Pukekohe onions, the bulk of which are soft and growing necessitating careful picking over ana a good deal of waste. Really good samples command 8s 6d per cwt ex store. There have been no alterations in the price of pollard or bran since last report. The local price of wheat is steady at 4s lid to 5s a bushel, at which figures there is a brisk sale. The consumption is likely to continue heavy at about this level, but any further advances in price would probably curtail sales, as the rates for eggs are falling. The maize market has eased another penny and is now quoted at 4s 6d a bushel. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET COMPANY. NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR AUSTRALIA AND N.Z. Mr Horace W. Remington, managing director of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., Ltd., having been appointed to the high executive position of export sales manager at the head office in America, Mr John V. Moran, an Australian, now succeeds Mr Remington as managing director of the Australian organisation. Mr Moran, who served four years in

the Great War, joined the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., Ltd., at the inception of the Australian business in 1921, ther} known as the Palmolive Company (Australasia), Ltd. . Commencing as a salesman with the prganlsation, Mr Moran is credited with having sold the first cake of Palmolive soap in Australia. He has gradually worked his way up in a comparatively short time, and now with the assumption of the managing directorship of this large and wellknown company, he achieves a unique place as one of the few Australians to be entrusted with the sole direction of such an important American corporation. Mr Moran is as well-known throughout Australia and New Zealand, as he is personally known to the executives of the head office organisation in Chicago, who selected him for one of the most outstanding positions that Australian business has to offer. CARRIAGE OF. PRODUCE. SHIPPING COMPETITION WELCOMED. a-a-«.S association tem;c,bau.) HASTINGS, June 13. In view of the negotiations which are proceeding for a new contract for the carriage of primary products from New Zealand to Britain, the following resolution was passed by the directors of the Hawke's Bay Farmers' Meat Company and W. Richmond, Ltd.:— "That the directors are of the opinion that hitherto the producers of New Zealand have suffered seriously through the absence of any real competition among the shipping companies for the carriage of produce. We are unanimously and emphatically of the opinion that any opportunity which occur which may tend to promote more healthy legitimate competition among the shipping companies in the carriage of New Zealand produce should be encouraged in every possible way and to the utmost extent by the Meat Board and all producers' organisations in the Dominion." EGG SALE. llarrU Bro*., T.ld., report thai the umw! weekly sale of ' father Bruiut" aiitmsd new-liud wa", held > ostci<ln,\ afternoon. The pi-lees realised woio:— Hon lirst, grade (-"* or over), Is G>l; hen second grade (unilcr 20?), Is Id. —(J