TIMARU MARKETS

Temuka Leader, Issue 5540, 23 July 1907, Page 1

TIMARU MARKETS

Gerrie A Co. report on Saturday’s sale : —Tile entry iof poultry cm Saturday was good, actual prices realised being : Hons, small 1/5 to 1/6, large 2/- to 2/3, roosters, small 2/3 to 2/11, largo 3/6 to -I/-, ducks 3/G to l/6‘ geese d/6 to 5/3, uirkey heivs 10/gobblers 17/-, all' at per pair. Potatoes, in ton lots ; Up-to-dates, table, £4 10/-, Derwenls .C 3 10/- to £3 45/Brilish Queen (seed) X(i, sacks 7/- to •10/-, swedes 27/6 per ton, 3/6 sack; wheat (whole) 16/3, broken IT/- to 15/-, oats (sbus) 16/-, second oats (■thus) 12/6, carrots 5/-, parsnips 5/-, all at per sack. Ham Od, bacon 7d to Sid, tea l/~, coffee i/-, at per lb ; hares 1/0, rabbits 1/-, at per pair. Apph's (cooking-) 2d, dessert 2yd,pears 3d (at per lb).

TIM AKU GRAIN MARKET, Mlieal. —The market remains very firm, and sales have taken place during the, week at 4/6', 'ex store. Timar : u. Tho fact that the duty is not to bo remittid on Hour from Australia has strengthened tho market, and it is not expected that wheat will change hands at less Hum the above figure. Fowl wheat is in good demand at -1/- on trucks, ami seconds are worth up to 3/0. Oats. —There is a good local demand. 'The same, however, caauot bn said in respect to shipping, owing to tho fact that 0 anadlan and Australian oats arc coming' into 'ho North is"and, and it is only Hie fact that oats are in small compass here, that prevents tho market weakening. Quotations are : Punish and Carious 3/-, and Duns 3/1, on tnucks a t Timnru. Potatoes.—'The market has cased some what during- the week, and values today are : Derwentg £3 5/- to £3 10/-/ Up-to-dates £3 15/-, trucks Tiinaru. Harley.—There arc* inquiries for feed sorts, but there is none offering. CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH, duly 10. There is yet no improvement in the wheat market. Two. email sales are reported, a mixed lino of ICCO bushels at -1/4 and SOO bushels of hunters at ■l/3, at country stations. 'There is no change in oats or oatsheaf chaff. The increase in tiro duty on potatoes! has not had the effect that might have been anticipated. Owing io a larger quantity being offered locally -and Tasman an l quotations being lowered, prices have - came down instead of going up. Buyers arc now offering only £3 5/- at country stations. A farmer who has just returned from Tasmania says- that on the ‘Davenport -and other wharves there ;are thousands of bags of potatoes awaiting shipment. TBo crop has been an exceptionally heavy one, and owing to there not being a very acltlvo demand in Melbourne or Sydney, the New Zealand market has boon an important outlet.

11 OMR MARK RTS. RON DON, July IS. At (he wool sales the average prices realised for the clips named wore Rkli'i-slie 1/3, Gear 10-Jd. Kawe.kawa 10-id. At (lie wool sales merinos are firm, e.nd crossbreds are occasionally slight 1. i i ’myurs’ fayor. Two Australian cargoes of wSeat have bvin.sold at 3-.1/t) to 35/- respectively. The American ’visible supply of wheat is Ci3,(i07,1M)1) '■ ushels.