PRODUCE MARKETS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20105, 11 May 1935, Page 6

PRODUCE MARKETS

CHRISTCHURCH. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. There has been very little movement in the potato market this week. The heavy supplies that have gone north by recent ships have reduced the Auckland inquiry to a minimum. There is a shadp of easing locally. Prompt whites are stil quoted £5/10/- f.0.b., s.i., with very little business, but Dakotas have eased to £5/7/6. For May-June delivery there are offerings at £5/15/-, but there are very few buyers at this figure. The on-truck price averages from £4/2/6 to £4/5/- a ton. Fowl wheat remains at 4/35 for “free” and 4/4 for board whpat. The. oats market is unaltered, but there Is very little business doing. A Garton’s are quoted at 3/2 a bushel for s.i. There is no change and, so far, no export inquiry in partridge peas. Market quotations to farmers are 6/a bushel. The small seeds market is unaltered.

DUNEDIN By Telegraph—Press Association DUNEDIN, May 10. The milling wheat market is unchanged. Fowl wheat is in short supply and supplies are being drawn from northern centres, where the equivalent of the f.o.b. price of 4/4 a bushel is being paid. Adding railage and other charges, the cost to local feeders is fairly high. Little business is being recorded in the oat market either for shipping or millers requirements. To-day's shipping prices are 3/3 a bushel f.o.b. s.i. for A Garton’s and 3/- for B’s. Equivalent values in the country are round about 2/10 and 2/6 respectively. Supplies of chaff are being drawn from Canterbury. Locally chaff ex truck is worth £5 a ton with £5/5/being asked for lots ex stores. Potatoes are selling on the basis of £5/15/- a ton ex store. Chewing’s fescue is to-day worth 1/11 per lb and brown top 2/-. Prices of cocksfoot and perennial and Italian ryegrass remain steady but there has been a distinct easing in the cowgrass market. GERALDINE STOCK SALE The following prices were realised at the Geraldine stock sale on Wednesday:— ' Fat sheep: 24 wethers at 19/4, 2 at 7/10, 1 at 8/-, 4 at 23/10, 17 ewes at 13/1. 7 at 10/7, 13 at 12/10, 25 at 13/7, 20 at 12/7, 20 at 14/10. 50 at 10/4, 9 at 6/10, 23 lambs at 15/4, 5 at 18/6, 2 at 20/7, 8 at 15/4, 9 at 15/7, 23 at 17/10, 11 at 14/4, 27 at 17/10, 15 at 17/4, 31 at 17/4, 33 at 17/4, 39 at 16/10, 57 at 16/7, 44 at 17/10, 52 at 16/7, 33 at 15/-, 92 at 15/1, 1 at 18/-, 1 at 14/-, 12 ewes at 10/1, 11 at 13/1, 3 at 10/4, 20 at 13/4, 5 at 12/10, 1 at 14/10, 19 lambs at 13/6, 12 at 14/4, 12 at 12/10, 46 at 17/10, 25 at 14/10, 31 ewes at 17/5.

Stores: 16 ewe lambs at 15/-, 20 at 16/-, 42 wether lambs at 8/4, 7 at 10/7, 60 ewe lambs at 15/2, 38 at 11/-, 45 ewes at 2/-, 42 m.s. lambs dt 13/-, 3 ewe lambs at 8/-, 17 m.s. lambs at 11/4 32 ewe lambs at 15/10, 41 at 15/6, 14 at 13/7, 82 at 16/6, 78 ewes at 11/-, 1 at 16/-, 17 at 5/-,- 80 at 17/-, 32 at 16/6, 100 lambs at 10/1, 12 at 11/6, 1 at 2/3, 19 ewe lambs at 17/-, 41 at 14/6, 67 wether lambs at 10/4, 19 lambs at 8/8. Horses: 1 bay mare at £32, 1 at £33, 1 at £2O, 1 gelding at £lO, 1 at £9. Pigs: 2 a; 8/6, 1 at 6/-, 4 at 10/-, 2 at 8/-, -2 at 7/-, 2 at 6/-, 2 at 10/-, 1 at 10/6, 1 at 10/-, 4 at 8/-, 2 at 12/-, 3 at 12/-, 2 at 11/-, 1 at 9/-. DAIRY PRODUCE United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 9. The butter market is steady. Values are- Danish 88/-; choicest salted New Zealand 77/- to 78/-, Australian 75/- to 76/-; unsalted New Zealand 80/-, Australian 76/-. . The cheese market is quiet. Valuer are: New Zealand white 44/-. coloured 45/-; Australian coloured 41/6. MELBOURNE VALUES United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, May 10. Produce quotations are as follow: Wheat, 3/3 to 3/43 a bushel; flour, £ll/12/6 a ton; bran, £4/10/- a ton; pollard, £4/15/- a ton; oats, 2/35 to 2/4 a bushel; barley, English, 2/9 to 3 - a bushel; maize, 4/6 a bushel; potatoes, £5/5/- to £5/10/- a ton; onions, £7/10/to £7/12/6 a ton.