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North Otago Times, Volume C, Issue 13176, 3 October 1914, Page 1

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. . - f ; ■ i. .'. OITRISTCJIURCH MARKET. ■ .' •■'■.. ''■ ■ \ """""" . ~ P ' (Por Press Association). • ——4 ■ CHRISTOHUBCII, Oct, 2. . Since tflic fixing of the price of wheat <" and Hour by the.Government, business | : in wliefft is at aeompleto standstill. !■' There are enquiries from outside millers for wheat at '4/9 f.'o.b. but merchants can only supply nt n loss. 011 recent put'-, chases out'of their.own stocks, >n.ml ; linlilpi". of client In the cnuntiy nic not soiling. 1 Oats aie woakei in the absence of shipping freight to the United .King dnm, and llieie K no demand foi chaff. The potato inaiket continnos to weak en, and 27/0 to 30/- are the best pi ices it [.lations » fit 1 aft bci 1y gi owing on Vn neon vcr I Island has some vciy stnkmg featuies 1 connected with it, one being thai, la 1 soine favouiable seasons, as many as font and even fivp ciops of berrios havo been taken J'lolll Iho same ilolds; • the last ciops being sometimes picked 1 as late as the middle or latter part of November. 1 / i - * /