GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET.
, lit TELEGItATH— I'RESS ASSOCIATION.) • Christchurch, May 11. Ine local wheat market lias been firm though very quiet during the last few days. Exporters are finding difficulty in obtaining shipping space, all that is available at present having been booked up to the end of June. In tho meantime they are not very desirous of making further purchases until more freight is offering. There is a fair quantity of wheat being'submitted for sale at 4s. to 4s. Id. at country stations, but beyond a small quantity changing hands at the latter figure 4s. is the general quotation.. No sales of any consequence have taken place since last report. There is no change in the oats market, , very little business being done. . , -.' ; Oat sheaf chaff ;.is-dull ;of sale. •.• • . Potatoes have further' hardened in price, ae few farmers are selling, preferring to pit their crops. '. ■■■'.■' .■.■■
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 505, 12 May 1909, Page 10
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146GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 505, 12 May 1909, Page 10
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