CANTERBURY MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 20

CANTERBURY MARKETS

<M TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

CHRISTCHURCH, 13th June. I here is little doing in the grain and produce market, and it is particularly dull for this time of the.year Potatoes are still the main subject oi consideration; growers look askance at ±4 _10s on trucks, and even at £4 15s business is not plentiful. Any business done locally is on the basis of £6 a ton i.o.b &.I W Hh July to September quotations from £6 5s to £6 10s There is not a ereat deal of pittino- goino- on as ■ current quotations of ; the forks are rather too attractive. There is little of a dejimte character as to the yield Ship-i-ments northward have been very'light • the Atua, leaves; next Monday for Auck- ■ IQ.HU, .; Chaff is .firming up, and from £7 to J' 10s on trucks has been paid f.0.b., 5.1.. Sales hare been made durino-.tho week at £8 17s <sd. ; Oats are still in the "dress circle " Up-till recently the paper oats were better than the actual, but the position is tho other way about now. June B's aro worth Ss 6d to 5s 7d f.0.b., S.I. and farmers holding any can get 5s on trucks Peas have completely sagged, and 5s 6d on trucks is the .limit of quotations. The Home market has been very deceptive, and local merchants. are paying tho piper.

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