GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

❖ ■ ' 1 Little Life in Canterbury Markets By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, July 16. Grain and produce markets have little life in them, and in no section is there anything but the smallest quantity of business. July is generally a dull month in the majority of lines, but this year there are few signs of activity anywhere. The North Island demand for potatoes has not so far appeared, mainly because shipments last week amounting to 9000 sacks and further substantial shinments this week, have kept Auckland fully supplied. There is some consignment business. but the majority of deliveries made have been in execution of contracts made earlier in the season. Buyers are not keen to operate, even at the present reduced rates, which remain unchanged from the beginning of the week. Onions continue in good demand, ami where supplies are available are easily sold. The price runs from £8 to £lO on trucks. The crop has mainly been cleaned up.

Oats and chnff continue firm with little business passing. It appears that a good deal of oats will be reouired in the sheaf for winter feeding, and offerings are not heavy. Both oats and chaff are being imported into the North Island from Tasmania.