CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 11

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)"-, CHRISTCHUKCH, Ilth March! " Any alteration in grain and product values during the week has been of »' negligible character. There has been * good deal of talk about wheM selling at 5s a bushel, but auyone setting out on a mission to buy at this figure would nog have booked much business. On the otheC hand, there" is a little Tuscan selling a« 5s 3d. Farmers for what little business is domg are receiving from 5s- Id to 5& 2d. There is a general set against, agi cepting ss. Fowl wheat has been soli fairly freely at 5s 6d f.o.b. for April-May; delivery.

Oats to-day touched the lowest point fof. some time, being bought at 2s lOd f.0.b.," s.i., through store for prompt delivery,.' This is equal to 2s 2d. B's are worth 2a' on trucks. Notwithstanding this low figure, there was a shade better tone in: tb«{ market this afternoon, due to a few for* ward operators covering deliveries. Algerians are not in request, and Dunn are in much the same position, excep* tor heavy dark sample for which there-iS some inquiry. . - ■''.?

Chaff is quoted at £3 on trucks with! no movement in the market. :■•'.! Vi T, he market for peas has steadied* little, and to-day 6s 6d on trucks was ruW ing. ■ '

Perennial ryegrass is firmer; and has im. PA° Vs ot,, shade J in J )ric?- Machine dressed, 27-281b seed, has been bought at 4« 6d a bushel, equal to about 2s 9d on trucks, Ine amount of perennial about is believed to oe limited, and the quantity carried? over not very heavy. Italian ryegrass, on the other hand, is unmarketable, The crop is an excess on*' and merchants are disinclined to trad» a« the, nominal quotations'"of Is 6dto lr 9*' on-trucks. A few samples of white clove* nave been shown merchants, but there j«f some distance between merchant*' an* growers ideas' of values. From 8d to'Si ,a I>> on trucks is mentioned. ' ■- ( Ihere is an inquiry from Auckland fo* prompt potatoes, and a few sales havai been made at £4 5s f.0.b., s.i. Sort* business has been done for July-September to £3 I6d °n trUCkB 3re irom'*»

Onions show no improvement on tr'ti^L quotations being £2 10b to £2 ife m^