SOUTHERN MARKETS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10028, 20 July 1918, Page 7

SOUTHERN MARKETS

WHEAT POSITION EASED, POTATOES ANH O-N'IONS RISING. Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, July 19. ■ The fact that the Government has decided to purchase two million bushels of Australian wheat and that one and a- half is expected to be landed during the next six months, will relievo these millers who have not been able to secure anything like their requirements of locally-grown wheat. There is no grain offering from the country. There is improved inquiry for oats, gartons being worth 4s Cd and 4s 9d at country stations, and supplies are very scarce. Oatsheaf chaff is firmer, as cutting has been suspended during the late bad weather, and orders homo have to be filled out of stocks in hand. The improved demand for oats and chaff is duo to North Island requirements, and a special shipment is loading for Napier.

Potatoes are firmer at £6 5s for whites and £6 10s for Dakota reds at country stations.

■Onions also have advanced, and are now quoted ats £l4 to £ls a ton at country stations. Tho southerly gale has further interfered with deliveries of produce from farmers.

White clover is firmer and is quoted at Is 9d and Is lOd at country stations. (

There is fair inquiry for cow grass, as none is offering, shelling having been put a stop to by tho bad weather. Mangels have been in good demand for snow-bound stock, and there has been some inquiry for bay. Tho supply of molasses for stock-feeding with straw is quite exhausted.