GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 5

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

CANTERBURY MARKETS . Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. March o. The grain and produce markets this week have remained featureless with no new development in any section. ■Deliveries of wheat continue to come in freely, but there i,s now a definiteslackening off in the amount being handled. The sample is increasingly good as time goes on. Potatoes are dull, hut reports of blight m potato crops are receiving a good deal ol attention. As usual reports are highly conflicting. but it appears that though the blight is fairly general, it has not vet reached the proportions of a tragedy. Most districts appear to he affected more or less. No indication has yet been received of the possible developments in the American market. There is considerable disappointment that the completion of the Australian trade agreement appears to have removed that market as a possibility, at any rate for some time. North Island interest in the small seed market appears to have faded in the meantime and little business is passing. Merchants are buying most of the seed that is offering from the country and prices are unchanged.