SOUTHERN PRODUCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 January 1932, Page 5

SOUTHERN PRODUCE.

LITTLE BUSINESS. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Though little business is being done in the grain market, interest is attached to the new season’s samples coming forward. Some are unusually early. The first of the season’s wheat lias been offered. Usually the first sample comes from North Canterbury, but the present one is reported to have come from Rakaia, where the season is very early. The wheat was sold as fowl feed to North Island and has actually been shipped. The price was 5/1 f.0.b.s.e. The nominal quotation is 5/- for prompt March-Sept ember. Fowl wheat has been sold at 4/31 f.0.b.-s.e. Farmers up town to-day practically all reported an improvement in crops as a result of showers. There is no change in the oat market, and Cartons have been offered during the week. Old chaff is being sold at £3/15/- to £4 a ton on trucks. A record in the early threshing of peas was indicated to-day in the offering of a sample of partridge. Italian ryegrass is quoted at 3/- a bushel on trucks, and good perennial up to 4/-. Cocksfoot is quoted at fid. lb. for Akaroa.

There has been a slight improvement in the potato market, a few sales having taken place to Auckland at 80/f.o.b.s.i. The general offer is 77/6, but sellers are scarce at this price. The equivalent on truck price is 57/6.