COMMERCIAL

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13966, 25 August 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRO DUCK MARKET.

(Per Press Association,) CHRISTCHURCH, August 24,

There are no changes to note in the grain market. Chaff continues to be in good demand for the North Island, and a fair quantity is coming forward. The price paid is'still £4 5s to £4 10s ai country stations,

The potato market is firmer, ami buyers are now offering £2 12s fid to £2 15s. Most of the business is; being done at the latter figure, at' neW stations. All centres of the North/Island are receiving potatoes from the' south, owing to .crops having been poor last season. The new season's crop is likely to be late, 'owing to the unusually wet winter and spring preventing' planting from being done, and the 'North Island will probably require southern supplies up to the middle of December. Very little business has been done by Southland this year, in shipping or outside markets, but there now appears a disposition to sell, and some business has been done at £3 ss, on trucks.