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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 May 1927, Page 10

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SOUTH ISLAND PRODUCE. (by telegraph—press association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 6. Although the arrangement between the farmers and the millers in regard to the price of wheat has not advanced any further towards confirmation, there is a fair amount of trading. A very substantial quantity of wheat has been purchased' during the week by both millers and merchants at 5s 6d a bushel on tracks for Tuscan white. Oats are 'a little firmer, A G-artons being sold at 3s f.o.ib. Lyttelton during the week. They are hard to get. Southland' has had a very had harvest. Canterbury growers declined: to thresh at the low values offering, the hulk of the oats still being in stack. The bad autumn for feed., with the nrobnbility of much more oa.ts being needed on the farm this winter, have combined to give a better' tone to the market. Sirrns are not wanting that it may be a fairlv stiff winter. B’s are quoted at. °s 2d on trucks. Algerians at 2s to 2s 3d.

Including a shipment of 5800 sacks which was desmatched from Lyttelton to Auckland the other day. no fewer than 24.000 sacks of potatoes were A inner! to' the northern port, in April. T> roba.,h'lv another 6000 sacks went from’ Timaru. This has’ glutted! the market comnletely. and inquiries are' nil. although them was some inquiry to'-dav for June deliveries at £4 5s a ton f.0.1i.. sacks in. To-day’s, quotations am from £2 17s 6d to £3 a. ton on trucks, thn- latter- figure being the or! , v oi" leading to business. Onions, am down in the nit. being q”ofed at £2 5s a ton on trucks.