CANTERBURY MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1923, Page 13

CANTERBURY MARKETS

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CHEISTCHUBCH,. 2nd Nor. Business done in produce recently has been negligible in quantity,- and owing to the proximity of carnival week-noth-ing of importance will be transacted until the following week. - Potatoes.—A few small orders have come to hand for potatoes - from the north, Wellington, inquiring for Dakotas mostly. One or two small parcels of potatoes have also'been sent to Auckland. .: ••■ ""•

. Wheat.^-Dunng the. past.few day* inquiries have been made for Hunters by. miller* and. biscuit-makere, but-it inclSSrct^^^^ 8-^

Peas>-Cabled: advices, received this DrM =,kf rOm • Laa^ m indicate that, the piobaWe- prices for next year will ba oW, n? ♦ not holfwuch inducement to growers, as better Bribes Man*- -fer'-ddir^ March and April of the .1924- «op tei^'rsrsn^ shipment to Liverpool ' ' contract to be grown at ss. ■Byegrass.—A. .Uttle movement his thTNo^VT 11! *°* shipment " am 11 i S t nd) and a number..of small parcels have been, sent north by 27 9fiik n °* tt L a parit-y of 7s ;3d for <? : 281b Canterbury seed of good eermination. ; 6 &

Chaff.—A fair number of sales have been.made lately to Auckland .at ■£6 ■los, f.0.b., e.i. . Sales in many" cases are being made.from samples. .";..;