BUSINESS DULL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17249, 3 May 1930, Page 5

BUSINESS DULL

CANTERBURY MARKETS GRAIN AND PRODUCE <V»t Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Merchants report that business is still very dull on the Canterbury grain and produce market. The potato market remains firm at £3 5s a ton on trucks, and it shows a healthier tone. The Kurow leaves to-day for Auckland with between 11,090 and 12,000 saeks from Lyttelton and 1400 sacks from Timarn. Auckland at present is in short supply, but this shipment should provide supplies for about a fortnight. Digging throughout. Canterbury is in full swing at present, and good crops arc reported. The oat market is a little firmer. There is not much offering, however. A Gortons have been sold for Lyttelton shipment, at 4s Id f.0.b., s.i. The on-trucks price of Canterbury oats is 3s (id. The chaff market remains unchanged, with little business passing, and not much inquiry from the North Island. To-day’s quotation is £5 a ton on trucks.

There is very little change in wheat values, which are quoted at: Tuscan, 5s 8(1 to 5s Oil a bushel; Hunters, 5s 9il to 5s lOd; Pearl, 5s lid to (is, on trucks in each case. There lias been a firming in the' market for fowl wheat, and this is now quoted at 5s lid f.0.b., s.i. There is a little more inquiry for partridge peas. To-day’s quotation is 4s 3d to 4s (id on trucks for No. 1, and 3s 9d for f.a.q’s.