GRAIN AND POTATOES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 92, 18 April 1929, Page 9

GRAIN AND POTATOES

UNUSUAL QUIET IN CANTERBURY CHRISTCHURCH, April IG. The grain and produce market is exceptionally quiet for this period of the year. Sinai lorders are coming to hand but these in the aggregate represent a very moderate turn-over. Potatoes provide the main source of interest at the moment. Aprii-May delivery is quoted at £5 5s a ton f.0.b., sack in, or about £4 on trucks, and July-September at £(i 7s 6d. The future market may owe something of its strength to the hope that shipment to Sydney will be possible. The Kurow on Saturday took 2900 sacks north. The Wingatui has since taken 1800 from Timaru and 2200 from Christchurch, a total of 7000 sacks for the week. Milling wheat, shows little change, being quoted at 5s 8d a bushel on trucks for Tuscan. Hunter 's is 5s lOd to 5s lid. Fowl wheat is scarcely so firm, there being substantial offerings of shrivelled wheat, the rejection of which for milling is crowding the fowl offering. The oats market is lifeless. Little change is to bo reported in values, but inquiry, is practically absent. Up to 3s shl a. bushel f.0.b., sacks in, is quoted for A Gartons and to 3s 2d for 8., Chaff is quoted, at £3 15s a ton on trucks. Partridge peas are quoted at 5s a bushel on trucks but export is not possible at this figure. The export price at the moment is about 4s 9d on trucks hut growers will not trade at this figure. Small seeds arc at the figures quoted last week. The demand for all classes is limited.