GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 221, 24 September 1910, Page 8

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS

(Christchurch Press, Wednesday.) There is a quieter tone ir the local wheat market, owing to the London > market being weaker. Shippers "aro .finding it. difficult to effect sales at 31s 6d to 32s per quarter, the Lest offers 'that have lately been received from London. Consequently they are not ready to make further purchases from farmers \t prices. which may leave them no margin of profit if the London market goes back any .further. % , Oats are dull _ of sale, ' and 'merchants are realising that they can ■only turn over their stocks at a loss. "The North Island .demand is limited, .as the season there is favorable, and

feed is making good growth. The northern markets are being -supplied with potatoes from Melbourne, and new potatoes are coming into Auckland from Sydney. Offerings from Canterbury growers are getting scarce, and the price has now gone up to £7 at. coiiritry stations. Our London correspondent, writing .on August- 12th, says:-Jfor New '.Zealand oats' 'the ' market is steady at 18s 9d to 19s' per 32Qlbs, c.i.f.;. quality guaranteed up to last season's standard could be obtained for "A" grade Gai'toris, but sellers ask higher rates. On the spot; ..supplies of the • better grade of Gartons are now. in .ssinall compass, and J the same are in? ■good reqiiest at 18s' 6d to 20s 6d. •Other descriptions are quoted: — :SparroAvbills 17s 6d to 19s 6d, Duns 17,s 6d to. ISs 6d, Danish 16s to 17s ! per 3201b5, ex store. Peas are stilL j consideraßly in excess of the demand, |

and trade is very difficult-to bring i about even in retail qualities. The better qualities may now be quoted at 48s to 455, and the lower sorts at •36s 6d to 39s 6d per 5041h5, .ex store. The undermentioned are the prices paid to farmers at country stations, free of commission, except where , otherwise stated:' — ■■' -■Wliea't—Prime 3s 3d ;to 3s 6d, ; prime Pearl 3s-Bd. f.a.q. ' milling'^s ' to 3s 2d, damaged 2s 8d to 2s lid, -at country stations. Oats' (nominal)—Gartons and Duns Is Bd, Danish Is 7d, Algerian 2s to 2s Id, at country stations. I

•Ryegrass—^Perennial 2s 3d to 2s 6d; Italian 2s 3d to 2s 9d, at country stations. . . ......

• Peas—Partridge 4s' to 4s 2d, Blue Prussians 4s to 4s 3d, Imperial Blues :4s 6d to 4s 9d, at' country "stations'.' •. Beans—2s 9d to'3s, at country stations. /

Cowgrass—s-|d to 6*d. Whit© clover 6d to Bd, for undressed seed. Flour-—£9 per ton.

Bran—£3 5s local, £3 f.o.b. per ton. ■

i Pollard—£s per ton. Oatmeal—£l2 per ton. . . Oatsheaf Chaff—6os for bright, at country stations.

Potatoes—Up-to-Dates and Derwents £7, Up-to-Date seed £5, at country stations. ,

Dairy Produce—Cheese, factory s§d, dairy 4fd, loaf s|d; butter, fact*ry 14d, farmers' separator 10-ld, dairy 9d; bacon, sides 6£d, rolls 7d, hams 9d; honey, extracted 3£d per lb, wax "Is 2d per lb; lard (packets) 6£d; fresh eggs, lOd per dozen.