CANTERBURY MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1931, Page 12

CANTERBURY MARKETS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, 17th February. Samples of wheat are now freely offering to merchants and millers. An interesting feature is that, despite the fact of an irregular season, some milling wheat lias been offered of a quality which has wot been seen by millers for a number of .years. The best yields to date have come from North Canterbury. The effect of the hard season has been evidenced more in the crops of Mid-Canterbury-. The re<!cnt favourable weather has been oenelicial to the later crops, and reports indicate that those will produce some good yields. There is little interest in the market for . milling wheat. Any business is on a basis of os 3d to 5s 4d per bushel on trucks. The quotation for fowl wheat lias firmed a little, and to-day is 5s Id, f.0.b., s.e. The oats market remains quiet. Algerians are quoted at Is lOd to 2a per bushel on trucks. A Gartous are worth 2s 3d on trucks, and B's 2s. The chaff market is unchanged, at £& 7s 6d per tons, f.0.b., s.e. The potato market is firm, with no change in values to report. Speculative business is on the basis of £4 7s 6d per ton, f.0.b., s.i., equivalent to about £3 7s 6d per ton on trucks. The quotation for July-August-Septem-fcer delivery is £5, f.0.b., s.i. The onion, market is firm, with growers inclined to hold. The quotation on trucks to growers for March-April delivery is £4 30s to £i 15s on trucks. Australian supplies reaching Auckland and Dunedin are .making, sales of prompt onions difficult at present values. '