CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 October 1922, Page 8

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 10.

The potato market is weaker. Farmers have been offered £5 15s at country stations for whites, but few are inclined to accept this figure after the strong prices of a fortnight ago. The Opihi, which is sailing in a day or so, is .understood to be taking only a small consignment.

. There has been a revival of inquiry for oats from England, but any margin for export almost immediately disappears on account of the increase in the local price. Local values are generally up to 2s 7d and 2s 7£d for A Gartons, and 2s 5d for B's. at country stations.

A few substantial parcels of cowgrass have Been sold for the north at 115s for machine-dressed, a shade over Is per Ib, This is equivalent to 9£d to farmers. White clover has sold at up to Is 8d for maohine-dressed. The loss is much greater than in cowgrass, and the equivalent figure to farmers is about Is Id to Is 4d.

It is understood the entries for the iinder-grade wheat pool are coming in freely from Southland, and to date approximately 100,000 bushels have been offered. The- bulk of this has not yet -been threshed, #nd possibly a good deal of it will be of milling quality and will eventually bo withdrawn. .