CANTERBURY MARKETS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, 26th August. The value of potatoes to-day is about £2 5s a ton on trucks, and the market is.very quiet. Sales have been made ot Dakotas at values equivalent to. below £2 5s on trucks. The Waipiata is loading at Timaru at present, and is expected to take a fair-sized shipment. The Waikouaiti is loading at Lyttelton, and it is reported that she will take about 1000 sacks. Opinions as to the immediate future of the potato market are uncertain, but the bulk of the belief is far from optimistic. .. , Small seeds, oats, and wheat show little life. Millers are buying occasional lines of next season's wheat at 5s 9d per bushel, fob or 5s 6d to 5s 7d on trucks, according to stations. Fowl whert is firm at 6s 2d f.0.b., s.i.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 50, 27 August 1930, Page 12
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