CANTERBURY MARKET

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 16

CANTERBURY MARKET

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CHRISTCHURCH, 9th September. _The_ grain and produce*market maintains its activity, and quite an amount of business has been done during the week. Oats are firm without any appreciable change in, values. A grade Gartons are worth up to 2s lid at nearby country stations. Grass seeds remain' firm, with steady business doing. White clover is worth from Is 2d to Is 4d, and cowgrass is quoted at up to 2s 2jd at country stations. Italian and perennial ryegrass are ilso in request. Cocksfoot, for good standard machine-dressed, is worth lid, and a sale to ' Australia is reported to have occurred at ll^d. To the farmers good cocksfoot is worth Bd. : Potatoes have recovered during the week from their somnolent condition, this being due to the reported shortening of supplies in Auckland, and the impending departure of a couple of boats. With freight available, the present quotations .are 32s 6d to 35s per ton. Partridge peas' have been bought at Bs, there being an inquiry from Home. ; Barley also is inquired for, but there is nothing doing at the present nominal quotation of 3s 6d. Another shilling would be required to unloose the quantities held in growers' hands. The inquiry is for export.