SOUTH CANTERBURY GRAIN MARKET.
There is a great lack of business on tho local grain market (says tho Timaru Herald), millers and merchants playing a waiting game to sco what tho Board of Trade intends to do in tho matter of flour and wheat. Owing to the continued dry, hot weather tho crops are coming in very fast and harvest will be early. Somo oat crops aro already in stook in South Canterbury, while in North Canterbury some wheat crops are also to be seen in tho same condition. Tho absence of sufficent rain to carry the crops on has quite nullified tho anticipations of abundant yield. Somo new season's Algerian oats were on the market this week, and found a buyer at 3s Id on trucks at a lgd station. The sample was a good one, and the oats were bought for seed purposes to be sent to tho North Island. Gartons aro quoted at 2s Bd, delivered Timaru. New wheat is not expected to bo on tho market till about the end of January. Some samples of new season's ryegrass were on tho market this week, but no sales are reported.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3277, 3 January 1917, Page 11
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