CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1204, 14 September 1927, Page 5

CANTERBURY PRODUCE.

STATE OF THE MARKETS'.

iPer Press Association),

Christchurch, Sept. Ift

Potatoes are a shade (inner' fo** liter months. To-day £6 a io*i 1.0. b. 5.1., is being asked Io- October, and though there is not muon business being :ktie at this i gore Here arc no potatoes offering at less. September stocks remain at the weekend quotation of £5 5s The Katoa which sailed north from Lyttelton on Sat unlay took; a heavier consignment than expected- 4000 odd from here, and .1500 from Timaru. The Tv mow is hooked to sail on Thursday or Friday. Prices to ’farmers are £4 a ton on trucks.

It was reported during the week Lint Australia was inquiring for oats, and the price* hardened a Denny. However, no business eventuated, and values to-day are back at the original level of 2* lid f.0.b., S.I. for B’s, and fts 2d for A’s. Wheat is in firm demand for the poultry trade at 6* 7d f.o.b. S.I. The cocksfoot rush has cased off, and offers of Danish have died down. Cowgrass, ryegrass and white clover are in the position recorded at the week-end. Values are firm, hut there is little inquiry.