LATE COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 19437, 21 December 1926, Page 6

LATE COMMERCIAL

GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Messrs Donald Reid and Co., Ltd., report:— Oats. —The market remains in a stagnant condition. Merchants are striving to quit their present holdings, but very little business is being transacted. Nominal values remain much the same as last week—viz., A Gartonsl 2s lOd, B Cartons 2s 7d (sacks extra), on truck, country stations. Wheat.—There is little to report in this market. Millers are not interested at present, but fowl wheat is commanding a little attention, and is selling at 7s 6d per bushel, ex store, Dunedin (sacks extra). Chaff.—Very little is coming forward, but as the demand is correspondingly small, values do not vary much. An improved demand can be looked for after the holidays, when the bulk of old chaff still available is generally disposed of. Prime chaff is to-day worth from £5 5s to £5 10s, ex truck, with a little extra for choice lines. Other grades are practically unsaleable.

Potatoes.—The season is about finished now, with an odd small consignment still coming to hand. The market, which was firm at the beginning of the week, collapsed toward tho end, and value to-day is about £4 per ton, ox store (sacks in). CHICAGO WHEAT. CHICAGO, December 20. (Received December 21, at 11.45 a.m.) Chicago wheat quotations:—December, 139 J cents per bushel; May, 139 3-8; July, 132 3-8. SALES ON ’CHANGE: THIS DAY. Auckland.—Kawarau, 3s 3d (forward); Soldier’s Loan, £lOl. , Christchurch. Reported; South British Insurance, 56s 3d. On 'Change: New Zealand Insurance, 3<s 6d (two parcels).