COMMERCIAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 31 March 1926, Page 10

COMMERCIAL.

CANTERBURY PRODUCE

(JSY TJ’.LKGKAFH PKESS VSSOCIATION. > CHE ISTCHUROH, March 30.

The market shows little movement toward briskness. All, classes of seeds are dull, and potatoes for the time hemp; are creating little business. Perennial ryegrass is now quoted at 5s 9d f.o.b. sacks in at Bluff for 271 b of seed, the equivalent of 4s on trucks at Canterbury stations. Italian ryegrass is quoted ati 4s 6d, 4s 9d, or 3s on trucks. Cocksfoot is unchanged, as is cowgrass. White clover is quoted at 9d to* lid on trucks, and a heavy crop is assured. Oats are without movement, and from 3s 9d to 4s on trucks cover? the price of Gartons.

Potatoes are not so much in the picture as they were. Doubtless tlie Australian operators want- to see some of their purchases before making further contracts. It is understood tha„t- the special Sydney boat will sail about April 20. and until then, unless the Sydney market soars to great heights, it may be expected that further order,s will be curtailed. Prices on trucks are from £5 10s to £5 15s.

Although there were' fairly free sales of wheat for a week or two at the millers’ prices, there is now very little passing. Growers generally are holding for something near 7s a. bushel. Values on trucks for onions have advanced to £l3 a ton, the highest figure out of the paddock .for many years. North and South, and also. Australia, are inquiring. The crop is coming in gradually this season, enabling growers to deliver according to market demands. and therefore maintaining prices. FROZEN MEIAT MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., I Ad., has received the following cablegram from London, under date ‘26th inst:— New Zealand Frozen Meat. —Quotations' unchanged. DAIRY PRODUCE. A. H. Turnbull and. Co. advise that a cable has been received from their principals, Messrs W. Wed del and C., Ltd., dated London, 26th inst., reading : Danish butter, 190 s to 1925; New Zealand, unsalted. 1745 l to 1765; New Zealand, salted, 174 s to 1765. The market is firmer. Cheese’. —‘White, 96s to 98s; coloured, 97s to 100 s. The market is quiet. DA.I R,Y PRODUCE. HIGH OOiMM.ISSI ON Eill’S. CABLE The Department of Agriculture lias received the following cablegram, dated the 27th instant, from the High Commissioner for New Zealand, London: BUTTER. Market firmer. Official quotations a re : New Zealand.—Finest salted 174 s to170s, per ciwt (Is 6Jdl to Is 6ijd per lb) ; unsalted 174 s to 176 s (Is 61 d to Is 6“d per lb). Australian.—Salted, 170* to 174 s per cwt (Is 6ld to Is 61 d per lb) ; unsalted, 17As- to 174 s per cwt (Is 61 d per lb). Other qualities (salted), 156 s to 166 s pej cwt (Is 4fd to Is per lb); other qualities (unsalted), 160 s to 166 s per owt (Is Ad to Is sid- per lb); Argentine.—Unsalted, 156 s to 162 s per cwt (Is 4fd to Is sfd per lb) ; other qualities, 140 s to 154 s per cwt (Is 3d to Is 4-Ad per lb). Siberian.-—ls6s to 163 s -per owt (Is 4.)d to Is old per lb), according to quality. Danish. —,190 s to 192* per cwt (Is S4d per lb). CHEESE. Colonial quiet. Official quotations are : English.—Finest farmers. Unchanged and firm. Canadian.—Finest coloured, 104 s to If Os per cwt (lid to 11 Jd per lb) ; white, lOOsi to 112 s per owt. (TILL to Is per lb) New Zealand.—Coloured, 97s to 99s per cwt (10(d to 10.U1 per lb); exceptional, 100 s per cwt (10:'d per lb); white, 98s to 97s per owt ( lOltl per lb) ; exceptional. 98s per owt (101 d per lb). Australian.—Coloured, 96s to 98* per cwit (Did to 10. Ll per lb). Shipments of New Zealand produce arrived this, week nor s.s. Ruapehu. CASEIN. Chsein.—Baltin £55, Chilean £-12. French rennet £45 to £55.