PRODUCE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 21, 28 May 1908, Page 17

PRODUCE

Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co. report :—: — Oats.— There are a good many coming to hand which are readily sold at quotations. Quotations : Seed lots, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; prime milling, 2s sid to 2s 6d ; good to best feed, 2s 4-id to 2s 5-i-d ; inferior to medium, 2s 2d to 2s kl per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.— Owing to the price of flour being reduced £1 per ton the wheat market has quietened down very considerably, and there is very little business being done. Seed, 4s lOd to 5s ; prime milling, 4s 8d to 4s 9d ; medium, 4s G^d to 4s 7^d ; best whole fowl wheat, 4s 6d to 4s 7d ; medium. 4s" 3d to 4s 5b ; broken and damaged, 3s 6d to Is 2d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes.— There is good demand for all sorts. Prime Derwents, £4 10s to £-1 15s ; best Up-to-dates, £4 5s ; medium to good, £3 15s to £4 2s 6d ; inferior and old, £3 5s to £3 12s (id per to_n (bags in). Chaff.— There is good local demand for prime bright oaten sheaf chaff, but the inquiry for export has slackened off and values all round are a shade lower. Prime oaten sheaf, £1 5s lo £1 7s 6d ; medium to good, £3 15s to £1 ; light and inferior, £3 to £3 10s per ton (bags extra). Pressed Straw.— Oaten, 35s ; wheaten, 32s Cd to 35s per ton. Turnips.— The market is over-supplied, and consignments are only cleared at a reduction, it being hard to get 20s per ton for them loose.