CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 22

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

CHRIBTCHT7ECH GBAIN AND PBODUCE REPOBT.

(Lyttelton tomes, 7th Inlt.)^ In the grain market business ia at » standstill, and during the laat few weeks practically no lines of any -importance have changed hands. Wheat continues to be offered, mostly in small lines, but 83 holders decline to accept the lower prices now ruling Qittle business has been done. The quantity d cats offering is= extremely limited, and the

maiket ha= appreciably weakened during the last few weeks. Chaff continues to come forward freely, l.ut the market is weaker. The potato market is extremely dull, and it <~eems difficult to sell at any pnee. The fo! owing quotations are for purchases from farmers, net ca^h. tacks extra, except where otherwise specified: — Wheat (nominal;.— Prime nulling. 5s Gd, at country stations. Oats (nominal) — Prime Duns 3s 8d ; Canadiai.s, Sparrowbills, and CKirtons. 3s 6d ; Danish. 3s 6d, at country stations. Chaff — Oatsbeaf, pume bright, £3 10s at cojntry stations. Peas. — Partridge and Prussian Blue, noruilia 1 . Beans. — Nominal. a Flour. — The New Zealand FlourmiHcrs' Cooperative Association (Ltd) quotes the following prices per ton. local or shipping. — Sacks, £12 10s; 1001b bags, £13; 50ib bag?. £13 ss; 251b bfl^s, ±13 10s. Brau, £i. 13s; pollard, £5 10s. Oatmeal, £18. Potatoes (nominal). £2 10s to £3, at country stations. • Seeds. — Undressed farmers lines: Bed clover, 7Jd to 8d; white clovei, nomir.iil; i-ye-grass, nominal. Dairy Produce.— Cheese: Dairy, large Cd

; < loaf 6id; factory, large. 6»d to GJd. Butter: j Fresh local factory prints, lid, bulk. 10id ; | second grade, lOd; farm separator. 9\d , faini dairy, Bd. Hams, Bid ; rolled v sides. 9d ; I I sides, BJd. Fresh eggs, 10d. Xew honey, 4id to 4Ad per :b. I TIiLARTJ. Though the price of -wheat hns fallen from (. 6s to 5s 6d per bushel, local millers are still holding off and for a line of wheat offered in Tim»ru yesterday it was found im- . possible 1o get 5s 6d f.o b There is some wheat sti 1 held in the district, for which t Cs was refused The position at piesent is that there are no buyers. On the oat market . the same quietness is manifest. There aro very few parcels offering, and (hough one sale of a fairly large line was effected during . the week at 3s 7d, an all-round price- for . Duns, Gartons, and Danisli may be said to - be 3s 6d per bushel. Old potatoes are a drug on. the market one? aj-« XKywr coming to ; hand, and while it is difficult to get £2 per ton for old potatoes, new ones are se'ling retail in small quantities at slightly under -„ 3d per Ib. 1 SOCKBURN SKIX SALE. Prices at the Canterbury By-prod\ict3 Conipanj's sale of skins at Sotkburn < v i\ » 3rd i^st. wcie as follow 3.— Hallbieds, 3; 3d

to 7s; crossbreds, 5s 106!; three-quarterbreds, 4s 9d to 63 7d; merino 9, is 6d to 6s; lambskins, Is 4d to Is 7d; pelts. Is 3d to Is 6d.