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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1914, Page 6

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(Christchurch Press, Wednesday V mmm St^pSS/o/t last upon whether1 cheap freights will be ! available later in the year * Barley is very dull of sale, and' there i 8 a oonsxderable quantity of medium and inferior grain. on th« ! market, which is very . difficult t dispo.se of. Australia has not 1 required any New Zealand barley, for 1 the last, two year, : ancl this curtailed ! the demand to suoh an extent that' the Domjmon crop J s more^';■&**•.?■ suffipi«nt vfor requiremen-ts; '■■■!.^M\ now very diflSeult. to" get' mpr^thS! •3S at country stations, except for a ' very pnme sample, and inferior j* e^!s offere(l a» low as 2s and 2s;£d' "* J^ 15 no c hange in j^-^.t maricet. A few sales idontinue to be ■ made at £2 10s at cpun%; stations ! but it is. not. expected that much forward busmoss will be done till the ■ diggmg o f the main crop is further a^lvanoed, as growers are generally not disposed to soil at the present 5 price. " . i T| 10 "?Iflwmentioned are the prices ) paid to faimers at country stations I tree ot commission, sacks extra excent, where otherwise stated: — Wheat—Tuscan, 3s 6d; Hunters

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