CANTERBURY MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 154, 30 June 1926, Page 15

CANTERBURY MARKETS

» (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHKISTCHURCH, 29th June. The potato market is quiet to-day, most interest centring around the dispatch o£ the Waihora for Sydney. The vessel completed her loading this afternoon, but is taking a good deal smaller cargo than was booked. She lifted 3500 sacks from Timaru, and instead of the expected 18,000 from Lyttelton only 10,000, or a total of 13,500. It is understood that only a few consignments were diverted, and the cause of the reduced cargo probably is that the potatoes did not reach the ship's side in time, only leaving yesterday and today to load. The smaller cargo is viewed with satisfaction, as 20,000 sacks are arriving in Sydney within twelve days, and 23,000 was rather overdoing it. The next vessel is booked to leave Lyttelton direct for Sydney on the 12th July. Advices received from Sydney indicate that the potatoes for which a price of £11 per ton was fixed were consigned tubers. There is an easier feeling as a result of the quietness, but purchases of any size could aot be made at any reduction on last week, although speculators are talking on a lower plane for July f.0.b.5.i., for spread deliveries. Local prices are mentioned at £7, and prompts £6 10s to £6 15s. Farm-' ers are bMng offered £5 per ton on trucks for prompts, lor coastal business, and £5 10s for Australian, but these prices nre not attracting them. The Katoa took v small consignment North of 3100 sacks. The Waipahi is dne to load on Thursday for Auckland, and the Wingatui about Tuesday. A few parcels of wheat are drifting into the millers' hands at fixed prices, these lines being in store for the most part, but 7s a bushel f.o.b. is being paid for fowl feed. _^