CANTERBURY MARKETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12853, 29 April 1905, Page 3

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

[BY TELEGRAPH I'KKSS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCIIURCII, Friday. Tjik local grain markets have not yet recovered from the break caused by the Easter holidays, and very little business is dointr. There is a fail qunntity of both wheat and oats on offer, but, buyers of wheat are only operating where the price asked is within their limits. If anything, the market is easier, except for really prime lines. It is reported that a quantity of wheat bought earlier in the season and shipped to-Auckland has been rejected. The only sale of any size reported to.have taken place this week is of 4000 bushels of weathered Hunters at. 2s fid at a3d station. Smaller lots of milling wheat have been bought at 2s 7d to 2s 8(1 at country stations.

The New Zealand Flonrmillers' Association have reduced the price of flour to £8 lus per ton, but offal has been raised 10s per ton, there being a strong outside demand, bran being wanted for South Africa. Oats are very dull of sale, as buyers who require any quantity are turning their attention to Southland, where oats of excellent quality can be procured on better terms than in Canterbury. There is practically no local demand except for prime lines, and these are difficult to pet at the prices offered. A considerable quantity of Southland oats are going northwards. The Wanaka a few days ago took 10,000 sacks, most of which is for Auckland. The quotation in Southland is Is 5d at wayside stations (sacks extra). The prohibition against the importation of New Zealand potatoes into New South Wales will affect the export of early varieties of seed, of which a considerable quantity was being sent over. It is considered by those engaged in the potato trade that, supplies of Bound potatoes will be much larger than was anticipated, and that the disease has affected crops much less than was at cue time feared. On the drier land til? crops ef Dements' are turning out very well, and it is only an the colder and wet lands that the disease has done much harm. The present price is nominally £1 at country stations, with very little doing.