PRODUCE MARKET QUIET

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 965, 7 May 1930, Page 11

PRODUCE MARKET QUIET

POSITION IN CANTERBURY Press Association CHRIST CHURCH, Tuesday. Tliere lias been very little change in the grain and produce market since the previous report. Most of the wheat has now been sold, and there is not very much offering. Values are unchanged. Today’s quotations are: Tuscan, 5s 8d to 5s 9d a bushel; Hunters, 5s 9d to 5s lOd; Bearl, 5s lid to 6s Id, on trucks in each case. The market for fowl wheat remains firm at 6s lid f.0.b., s.i., equivalent to Es 6d on trucks. The oat market is also unchanged, the price of trucks in Canterbury being 3s 6d. There has been a better inquiry for chaff recently, and the ontrucks price is now £ 5 to £5 2s 6d. The price to farmers on trucks for potatoes is unaltered, being £ 3 5s a ton. There is a better inquiry for potatoes in all forward positions, quotations being: June, £4 15s a ton; July, £5 ss; July-September, £5 10s. Capo barley is quoted at 3s 6d on trucks, best malting at 4s 2d to 4s 3d, and medium quality at about 4s. The latest linseed quotation is £ls a ton on trucks. There is a better inquiry for partridge peas, and there has been a slight firming in values consequent upon a scarcity of new ones. They have been sold as high as 5s 3d f.0.b., s.i., equal to 4s 9d on trucks, and fair average quality is quoted at 4s to 4s 3d on trucks. There has been an alteration in prices for bran and pollard, which now come into line with those in Australia—namely, £ 8 a ton for bran, and £S 10s a ton for pollard.