POTATO AND ONION MARKET.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12534, 22 June 1901, Page 3

POTATO AND ONION MARKET.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I am very pleased to see the way in wmich the above is keeping up, but what is more pleasing to my mind is the fact that growers themselves are getting the full benefit of it, owing to their taking the excellent and sound advice given by a “Farmer’s Friend” in your issue of March 15, viz., not to sell for forward delivery. From all I can -hear, very few, if any, forward contracts have been entered with this season ; consequently the right people, viz., the growers themselves, have benefited by the rise, and they are those who ought to, not the Sydney merchants. Most truly did the writer of that letter sign himself, the “Farmer’s Friend.” Bub there is another matter that I should like to suggest, . and that is, that you assist the growers still further by publishing in your Wednesday’s or, what would be still betor, in your Saturday’s issue, the state of the grain and produce market each week at the chief New Zealand centres, viz., Invercargill, Dunedin, Oamaiu, Wellington, Napier and Auckland, living the current prices of potatoes, onions, etc., at each of these places. By doing this you will confer a further benefit on Canterbury growers.—l am, etc., * E. ARMSTRONG.