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Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14009, 13 March 1920, Page 8

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CHBISTCHLKCH MARKETS

(Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHUHCH, March 12. The late report in gram and produce prices shows that Garton oats have firmed, and "are worth os at country stations, for good sample. Tliis price is not prompting extensive offers, as growers expected the values to improve. Until the inter-island shipping gets out of the present condition, purchases for northern coiisumjjtion will bo verv miicn hampered. Algerians ar-A Duns a:e still very iirm. and any available are eagerly snapped up, regardless of a few pence in price. All grass and clover seeds, with the exception of cocksfoot, are very firm. ! Italian rye is worth 6s 6d. country?stations, and perennial 7s to 7s :}d. w'lnt.' clover lias been sold at 2s 6d. There is a good inquiry lor all kinds of seed irom the Xorth. and < ousiderahle .juantities have lieen bought for the Hawke's Bay district. I The cocksfoot crop is proving very costly to dress," the bulk coming iorward containing a good deal ol tog. etc. This has eased the price for undressed seed. Onions are not much in .request. Potatoes are nominally worth I'o 5s to £'o los at country stations There is practically no fowl wheat' available at present. The millers are takiiig wheat this year that iu previous seasons would be discarded. The recen*. bad weather may result in some provision in the matter of fowl feed. but in any case it will be unprecedentedly star**