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Hawera Star, Volume L, 1 December 1930, Page 7

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CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 2S. There is very little activity in the grain and produce markets at present and the inclination towards any forward business is not strong, merchants preferring to wait until some better line on probable prices next year may be secured. Potatoes, which usually stimulate a considerable amount of interest in regard to forward business at this time of the season, are showing a little movement. A few lines have been bought at C 3 a ton on trucks, while the more general o notation is a shade above that figure. Auckland merchants are not eager to speculate, but offers have been made up to £4 os a ton f 0.b.. sacks in. The old .season’s cron lias been praetioallv cleared, although there arc still odd lines being delivered at prices which range from 30s to 35s a ton on trucks to growers. The backward season lias meant that inaiiv paddocks which would have been closed for seed purposes will now be grazed, and this lias Pd to the opinion that there will not be the area in seed this season that was anticipated. At present there is little mention of onotations. There is .some activity in the market for export white clover, but of that class there is not a great deal offering. White clover has been a fairlv steadv market for some time in Britain anrl reports arc still enconraginr. One ciher rairlv cheerful section of the market, is that for peas, for which tlmrc is a fair innuirr. Quotations are is Pd to os for No. 1 and is 2d to is P-1 for 4’s.