GRAIN TRADE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 13 April 1908, Page 4

GRAIN TRADE.

PRODUCE WAITING FOR SHIPS.

[PBBSS ASSOCIATION.! DUNEDIN, April 13. A general complaint is made by practically the whole of the grain and poroduce merchants in Dunedin at what they consider the totally inadequate shipping, service between this port and Northern ports. It appears there is exceptionally heavy demand from £he North for wheat, loots, potatoes, chaff, and hay, and while Northern' buyers are clamoring for supplies, local merchants cannot get boats to take them away. Merchants complain that for the last three weeks enormoxiß quantities of produce have been left on the wharf. The shipping companies concerned, the Union Company and the Huddart Parker Company, assert that everything possible has been done to cope with the exceptionally heavy trade. Pressrure has been.' feK at other ports, a<nd the demand for space on boats has been very heavy. They anticipate that the coming week -will see everything cleared away. .