COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL
CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. <BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRTSTCHURCH, 28th August The grain market is very quiet. No wheat Is coming forward, although it is known that % few lines are still held in the country. Oats are firm, but few are available. There is a fair amount of business doing in oatshoaf chad with the North Island, and prices are unchanged. Orders have been coming in a little more freely from the North Island for potatoes. I lie fear that there would be a rush of consignments through there being more steamer accommodation on the coast has not been realied, and northern buyers are evidently operating with a little more confidence. Prices are a little firmer, and purchases cannot be made below £2 los at country stations.
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., reports that at its Upper Hutt sale on Thursday there was submitted a medium yarding of cattle. Store cows, £7 158 to £9 Ms; store cOws, aged, £6 19a to £7 es ■ empty heifers, £5; small hellers In call, £6; bulls, £6 18s to £7 lit.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 51, 29 August 1917, Page 6
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