GRAIN AND POTATOES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 112, 8 November 1930, Page 12

GRAIN AND POTATOES

THE AKEAS SOWN (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTQHURCH, 7th November. Some inteiest>'has'been aroused on the ]ocal giain and produce raaikets as a lesult o£ the publication ot the oiacial statistics in legard to the aieas soun in tereals and potatoes, this yeai. It .had been expected since last j.utimin ttat an increased area -nould be town in wheat as a result of the drop in meat and-wool piices, but the actual inciease yt not =o large as -was anticipated, lhis m ' accounted for piobably bv the wet spring, which made it impossible ior some growers to get-in as touch wheat as, they had i intended. ' There-is a substantial mcieabe m the nuea- sown 'in oats this year. The area Itmt year -was 288,81* atres, and this year Jt'is 322,00(J' acres. More oats -were sown tfen traa first intended, because the wet soring atfcpped wheat sowing to a cerwni extent. ' Tka figures in regard to potatoes show m increase of nearly 700 acres, as compered with 3m* year, when 23,314 acres wero eavna, a* against 24,000 acres this year.' No business is being done at picsent, . r^jd consequently onlj nominal quotations tan-be gnTen.