CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 38, 13 August 1921, Page 9

CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKETS

(IT TBIfSRAFB.—PBESa ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHXTRCH, 12th August.

Whilst little business is passing locally in oats, prices remain unaltered. Very few* offers are being made by farmers. Undoubtedly a big quantity of oats, is still in stack in Canterbury, but the spring thrashing has rarely been heavy, and it is quite probable that a good deal will be chaffed. Since the reduction in the freight Home to £3 8s per ton., about 26,000 sacks have been shipped to England, but recently there has been a cessation of export. Recent quotations are 3s 7d f.0.b., 5.1., equal to about 2s 9d at country 'stations. .

Seeds have steadied. The recent demand took them to figures that stopped speculative business, and, although the market is firm, there is not much doing beyond seasonal orders. Potatoes are a shade firmer, due to lesser quantities being despatched recently to tho North. The firmness is represented by inquiry rather than by any appreciation in values, which are still from 30s to 35s ait country stations.