GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 16, 13 October 1933, Page 12

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Christchurch Market Prices

GRASS SEEDS ACTIVE

Dominion Special Service.

Christchurch. October 11.

The activity in the small seeds department is more healthy than for years, and a very steady and increasing export demand for ryegrass is the principal feature.

Recent levels for ryegrass are being maintained with the demand in terms of volume of business increasing. The prices quoted are from 2/3 to 2/6 for both Italian and perennial. Cocksfoot has shown some improvement, and to-day is quoted at (kl per lb for Akaroa and 4}d per lb for plains.

Cowgrass shares in the demand and remains firm nt late rates. There is little offering.

Generally a large quantity of seeds have changed hands among merchants and the export, business in ryegrass has been considerable.

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 for September) : Tuscan, 3/9 ; Hunters, 3/11; Pearl, 4/1, all f.o.b. Fowl feed, to 3/6; better than grade to 3/61 a bushel, f.0.b., s.e., for prompt.

Oats: A Gartons. 1/10; B Gartons, 1/5.Potatoes (nominal): £2 a ton for whites, £2/17/6 for Dakotas. Italian ryegrass: 2/3 to 2/6 a bushel, for heavy seed. Perennial ryegrass, 2/3 to 2/6 a bushel. Cocksfoot: 6d per lb for Akaroa, 4}d for Plains. White clover; 1/- per lb. Cowgrass, 8d to 9d per lb. Chaff: 37/6 to £2. Flour: £l3/12/- a ton, local; £l2/17/S '"Bran”: LoCal, £4/10/- a ton, large; £5 small: shipping. £4. Pollard: Local, £6large. £6/10/- small; shipping. £5.

Wellington Prices

Wholesale prices of grain and other produce in Wellington are quoted by Lacry and Co., Ltd., as follow:— Australian barley, 3/6 bushel; barleymeal, £6/17/6 ton; bran. £6/5/- ton; chaff, prime Blenheim, £4/12/6 ton; prime Wairarapa, £4/15/- ton; chick raiser, No. 1 or No. 2, 22/- 2001 b sack; starting mash. 2-1/- 2001 b sack; growing mash. 24/- 2001 b sack; poultry mash, 16/- 2001 b sack ; copra coke meal, £7/17/6 ton; farro food, £6/15/- ton; mixed fowl feed. 4/3 bushel; lucerne meal, 10/6 1001 b.

Maize: Crushed, 4/10 bushel; whole, 4/3 bushel; maitsemeal, £B/5/- ton 2000 lb. Data, Algerian, 2/8 to 8/- bushel; Gartons, 2/6 and 2/7 bushel; ground, £7 ton.

Potatoes: Sutton Supreme seed, £7 to £7/10/- a ton ; table Dakotas or Suttons, £5/10/- to £6. Peameal, £6/17/6 a ton. Partridge peas, 4/9 bushel; Prussian blue peas, 9/- bushel; crushed peas, 5/- bushel. Oat pollard, £3/15/- ton; New Zealand wheat pollard, £6/10/- ton. Whentmeal, £7/5/- a ton; wheat, 4/to 4/10 n bushel. Pork, prime dairy. 5d to sid per lb; eggs, first grade, fid to 1/- per doz.; butter, farmers’ separator, 9d to Old lb. AUSTRALIAN PRICES Wheat Market Dull By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright (Received October 12, 8 p.m.) Sydney, October 12. The wheat market is dull. Bagged on country sidings is offered at 1/11, and bulk at 1/10 a bushel, which is equal to about 2/6 ex trucks, Sydney. Flour, £9 a ton. Bran and pollard, £5 a ton. Potatoes, £s/10/-; Victorinn, £4/10/- a ton. Onions, Victorian Brown -Spanish. £5 a ton. Oaten hay, £7/10/- a ton. Maize, yellow and white, 4/- a bushel. SYDNEY WOOL SALES Market Very Firm By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received October 12, 9.45 p.m.) Sydney, October 12. At the wool sales to-day, 13,105 bales were offered, of which 11,687 were sold at auction, 666 being sold privately. Spirited general competition saw the market at the best point of the week, prices for all best descriptions ruling in sellers’ favour. Lambs’ wool was in special request, with values from par to fire per cent, higher. Greasy merino sold to 23d for nine bales from Bingarn. Comebacks equalled the season’s record of 19d for eight bales from Narrandera. The average price for the first three days of this week was £l6/13/5 a bale, 0r'12.7d per lb.

Melbourne, October 12. The highest price at the Geelong wool sales this season was 2-ld per lb, realised to-day for four bales of merino from Skipton. DECLINE IN BUTTER PRICES Cheese Market Slow Joseph Nathan and Co.. Ltd., have received from their principals, Trengrouse and Nathan, Ltd., the following cabled advice, dated October 11; —New Zealand butter, 109/-101/- per cwt. New Zealand cheese: White, 50/- per cwt.; coloured. 48/-. Both markets very quiet. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company,’ Limited, have received tiie following advice from their London house, dated October 11:—Dairy produce (last week's quotations in parettthe.ses) : Butter. N.Z. choicest salted, finest, 101/- per cwt.: Ist grade. 9S/(100/102/-). Market slow. Cheese, white, 51/- per cwt. ( 5 %). Market quiet. Coloured, 49/- per cwt. (49/uO/-). Very slow. A. H. Turnbull and Co.. Ltd., have received the following cable from their principals. W. Wcddel and Co., Ltd., London, dated October 11 :—Butter: N.Z. finest . 97/101/-: Kangaroo, 98/101/-; market stagnant. Cheese: N.Z. white, 50/52/-; N.Z. coloured. 49/50/-; market quiet.