COMMERCIAL

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 3 December 1927, Page 8

COMMERCIAL

CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET. (by TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Dee. 2. Business is practically lifeless in most sections of the produce market. Potatoes are gone for the season, any business being for isolated parcels for the south. The basis for next year’s crop remains the same as previously quoted, i.e., £4 15s, f.0.b., sacks in, or £3 10s on trucks. On account of the uncertain weather forward quotations of wheat are practicaully absent. The little business that has been done this last fortnight is on a basis of os lid f.0.b., but until the weather settles and affords some indication of the prospective yield forward operators are virtually silent. There is a little inquiry for B Garton oats at 3s per bushel, f.0.b., sacks in, for April-September. Standard dressed cocksfoot is quoted at llld per lb for prompt standard dressed, but there is practically none offering. As there is little prospect of Danish importations this year, on account of the price and the compulsory staining, a considerably larger quantity of local cocksfoot will be needed. To meet the position a large area is being closed up on the Peninsula.