CANTERBURY MARKETS

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1032, 17 February 1927, Page 7

CANTERBURY MARKETS

\ VARIATION IN PRICES. < Per Piesa Association' Christchurch, Feb. 15. There was a decided lack of uniformity about wheat valuees, Some growers' this week have recei\ ed 5s Td and 5s 9d for Hunters ami others as,lid, 5s sd, and in one case 5s did' for , TusCau. These prices are on (>f business is passing. Local mills, have fair supplies now on hand and heavy cargoes of Australian, wheat purchased by northern mills are restricting enquiry from that quarter; Fowl wheat, which has been selling freely tit 5s Sid f.0.b., is in quieter demand.

An • announcement is expected , at any moment in regard to a reduction in the price of Hour. Last season s local grist has remained at £lB per ton. notwithstanding the parity of imported Hour being tills a ton less. No doubt bran and pollard will be reduced at the same time, as these products have come back in price in Australia.

A grade Carton oats were offering today at Ms f.o.b. 5.1... or 2s -Lid op trucks, without buyers. d’lic Home market for peas is depressed' and there is an easing demand in local markets.

Potatoes are" tinner as the result of Auckland' inquiry and the effect on yields the continued dry weather is likely to have. 1 11 North and Mid-Canterbury tills' is fairly certain to be pronounced. Business was done with Auckland to-day at £4 2s (id f.o.b. S.L or £M on trucks. r l’lio onion market lias conic back rather pronouncedly, values to-day being £M 10s on trucks for prompt delivery and £M ss' for later. Tlieie is very little demand, as there are still imported onions in use.