POTATO MARKET QUIET

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1010, 28 June 1930, Page 11

POTATO MARKET QUIET

POSITION IN CANTERBURY I Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. | . u is „ that the wheat poo] | has offered 2,000,000 bushels of the 2, e -¥, t sea ®°h’s Tuscan wheat to the at os 6(1 a bushel on trucks. Apart from this there is little interest *2 that market, practically all the free wheat having been realised, i* owl wheat remains firm at 6s, f.0.b.. The oats market is slightly firmer and for the first time for a long period local oats were offered and sold. The quotation for A Cartons from the South today is 3s lid to 4s a bushel, 1.0. b., 5.1., for spread delivery and 3s lOd f.o.b s.i for prompt. B grade is quoted at 3s 9d, f.0.b., s.i., for prompt delivery. A Gartons locally have been bought at 4s 2d, f.0.b., s.i., equivalent to 3s 9£d on trucks, and B grade at 4s Id, f.0.b., s.i., equal to 3s gjd on j trucks. There is a great scarcity of Algerians. So often in over supply, j today they are practically unprocurj able. Chaff is firm at late rates, with business dull. The quotation for prompt delivery is £7 a ton, f.0.b., s.i. equivalent to about £ 5 5s on trucks! %_ or Ju! y-August-September delivery the quotation is a little better than the above figure. There is very little alteration in the potato market. Growers are inclined *-9. hold, and any offer to be acceptable must be £4 a ton on trucks, home holders have refused £4 ss. The Auckland market early in this week firmed 5s a ton consequent upon supplies being cleared, but the Waimarino leaves tonight for that port with a cargo of between 4,000 and 5,000 sacks of potatoes. The Katoa left earlier in the week with a similar quantity for Auckland. The quotations today In Cashel Street are £4 15s to £4 17s 6d for prompt delivery, £ 5 5s to £5 .7s 6d for July, and £5 12s 6d to £5 15s for July-August-September, f.0.b., s.i.