Commercial.
Messrs Dalgety aud Co.. Ltd., report for week ending 22th January as follows : We held our usual weekly auction sale of grain and Vproduce stores on Monday the 22th instant when we offered a large catalogue to the usual attendance of buyers. The following are the range of values: — Oats: —The new season’s crop in Canterbury is now on the market, and in order to effect sales locally, lower values will have to be taken. Quotations are: —Prime milling 2s Ud to 2s oil, good to best feed 2s 2.1 to Id, inferior to medium 2s to 2s 2d per bushel (bags extra.) Wheat:—There are no offerings from the country, and the business passing is on a very limited scale. .Values remain, therefore, on a par with late rates. Fowl feed is in request, and is readily saleable to the local trade in small lots. Prime Velvet Js IOVI to 2s Ltd, Velvet Fir and Tuscan 2s 2d to 2s 10.1, best whole fowl feed 2s Sj to 2s 2d, medium 2s 7d to 2s Sd. inferior and damaged 2s 2d to 2s (id per bushel (bags extra.) Potatoes . —There were no potatoes on offer at today’s sale. Chaff:—The market continues to be heavily supplied, and in face of the new season’s crop being now offered in the .Northern markets supplies are in excess of the local demand, and values last week dropped very considerably. At to-days auction sale fair quantities were offered, and the best price obtainable was C2 12s (id ex truck. Best chaff ,C2 12s (5.1, good L‘2 7s (! i to C2 10s, medium L’2 15s to C2 ss, inferior tC2 to £2 10s per ton (bags extra).
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2283, 5 February 1912, Page 3
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282Commercial. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2283, 5 February 1912, Page 3
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