CANTERBURY PRODUCE

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 August 1933, Page 5

CANTERBURY PRODUCE

MARKETS VERY DULL. SLIGHT RISE IN POTATOES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.* CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 18. Business in all Canterbury produce lines is exceedingly dull. Potatoes have steadied a little, although there is little change in values that can be quoted. A few days ago they wore £4 a ton f.o.b. sacks in. and business- was being done at this price. To-day they are about 2s 6d better, owing to the very small quantities that have been going north and the assumption that stocks there must- be down to a minimum. The Wingatui during the week took 2200 sacks from both ports, and the \Vaipahi to-day- took only a small quantity. Only about 5000 sacks have gone north in the last fortnight. As against this, however, is the fact that consumption is much reduced and local supplies have spun out longer into the- season. Farmers are not overcrowding the market at the moment. Prices have got •1-own to a point which, they consider, has reached bedrock. Quotations to them are £3, and Dakotas are worth from £3 10s to £3 15s on trucks.

Fowl feed is unchanged at 3s 5d to 3s 5.1 d f ob. sacks extra. Oats are in little demand. There is no change in the ismall seeds market.