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Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1928, Page 13

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CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET. By Telegraph,—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. ■ Potatoes have improved ex-wharf. Auckland sales have been made at £6 15s, and the inquiry from that quarter indicates that the accumulation at that centre has disappeared. “Prompts” are quoted at £3 15s f.o.b. sacks in, though there is little offering at this price, the f.o.b. sacks in figure being about £4 17s 6d. Junes are quoted at £5 2s 6d to £5 5s f.o.b. sacks in, and July-Sep-tembers at £6 2s Gd. The Kurow and the Waikouaiti are about to leave for Auckland with a consignment between them of about 5000 sacks. To May 12 the total shipments from Lyttelton aggregated 76,622 sacks, more than usual up to this period of the season. Reports of blight in the crop vary in North Canterbury. It is claimed that quite an amount of disease has been manifested. Further south the reverse is the case.

The onion market has improved, and £5 a ton is available on trucks. Oats have scarcely the vim about them of a week or two ago, though business has been done in June-Septembers at 4s 4d f.o.b. sacks in for A grade. May oats are quoted at 4s 3d. The wheat market remains Ikm and as high as 6s 2d f.o.b. sacks in lias been paid by merchants for North Canterbury wheat, or the equivalent of 5s 10<i on trucks. Millers are not in the field to any extent, and their offers are not on this level for Tuscan. Hunters has been sold at 6s on trucks, there being a keener demand for short berried varieties. Fowl wheat is quoted at 5s 8d f.o.b. for prompt delivery at Lyttelton. ,