GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 2

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

fBI' TBtEGKAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 22nd March. There is a bomewhat easier tone hi the wheat market, though pricee have not yet been appreciably affected. Millers have now laid hi considerable stocks, and a disquieting ©lenient in tho market in a report that 1000 tons of Australian flour are coming into Auckland, and will be landed at the samu price as South Island flour. Them has been a fair quantity of wheat on offer, and sale*? nave been made as usual at- 3s 4d to 3s 6d at country stations. The oab market continues without change, there still being a demand, though at present no export outlet exuits at present prices. Algerians are reported to be scarce, and are being more keenly enquired for. - Chaff is somewhat firmer, the quotations now being £2 10s to £2 15s, but with little business doing. . ■ Early varieties of potatoes have advanced,' and are now quoted at £2 15s ■to £3 at country stations. There is also a rise in the price of onions, the rates now boing paid being £5 10s to £5 15s at country stations. The crop is late this year, and on account of the wet weather the condition is not as good as usual. It is estimated that thb crop in tho Dominion will only oe sufficient for local requirement*. Except for one small lot there hs« been no export to Australia this season. :is the onions have not been in a condition to ahip. There is considerable shortage in the supply of grain saekc, the weight of crop not having been anticipated when the orders for the season's requirements were given. A shipment ia expected lo arrive from Calcutta in about six weeks' time. Second-hand sacko have been in) ported from Sydney and from tho .North Island, and these, in addition lo thohu available locally, have hnd to be put into us=o to fi!i rcquiiemcnU. New wicks have advanced to 8s per do^on, ni>d fullsized second-hand sacks, to 7s oil.