PRODUCE

New Zealand Tablet, 26 November 1908, Page 17

PRODUCE

Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co., Ltd., report for week ending November 24 as follows :—: — Oats. — The market is very depressed, and sales are only effected at a decline in prices. Quotations : Prime milling, is 7^d ; good to best feed, is 6d to is 7d ; inferior to medium, is 3d to is sgd per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — The market is very firm at late quotations, but there is very little offering. Fowl wheat is in good demand. Quotations : Prime milling, 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; medium milling and fowl wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 5d ; broken and damaged, 3s 3d to 4s per bushel (sacks extra). Chaff. — There is a great deal coming forward, and prices have declined in consequence. Quotations : Prime oaten sheaf, £2 2s 6d to £^ 5s ; medium, £2 15s to ; light and inferior, £2 los to £2 15s per ton. Potatoes. — The market has been very bare for some little time, and prices show an advance of from 5s to 10s per ton Best table potatoes are worth £4 10s to £^ 15s; medium to good, 15s to 7s 6d ; inferior and stale, £2 to £3 5s per ton (bags in). Straw. — There is not much demand, and prices for both wheaten and oaten range from 35s to 37s 6d per ton (pressed). Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows :—: — We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a full catalogue to an average attendance of buyers. Competition for most of the lin o s on offer was fairly brisk, and a fair clearance resulted at priesc s about on a par with late rates. Values ruled as under : Oats. — The market is depressed, with no improvement to report as to the demand existing. Business has been found impossible at late quotations, and values in consequence show 3 decline. Quotations: Prime milling, is 73d; good to best feed, is 6d to is 7d ; inferior to medium, is 3d to is 53d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — 'ihe market is firm at quotations. Business, however, is restricted through lightness of offering. Millers arc keen operators in choice lines of velvet or Tuscan. Medium lines are readily disposed of as fowl wheat. Quotations : Prime milling, 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; medium milling and fowl wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 5d ; broken and damaged, 3s 3d to 4s per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. — The market, owing to lightness of arrivals, shows an advance of about 10s per ton for prime table Up-to-Dates. Quotations : Prime Up-to-Dates, £4 7s 6d to 15s ; medium, £4 to £4 5s ; inferior, £1 per ton upwards (bags in). Chaff. — Arrivals to hand are heavier than they have been for some time past, and in consequence of this and in the absence of a shipping inquiry, late quotations are barely maintained. Quotations : Extra choice, £3 7s 6d ; prime oaten sheaf, £2 2S 6d to ss; medium, £2 15s to light and inferior and heated, £2 10s per ton upwards (bags in). Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. report : We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday. Our catalogue comprised a fair selection of produce suitable for local requirements, most of which found buyers at prices on a par with late quotations. Values ruled as under : Oats. — At the reduced prices ruling there is good inquiry for prime Gartons. Local stocks of these are, however, practically exhausted, and the few holders are not disposed to accept current values. Prime milling sorts are worth is 7£d ; good to best feed, is 6d to is 7d ; inferior to medium, is x 2d to is 56. petbushel (sacks extra).

Wheat. — Stocks of milling wheat are now in very, small compass, and any lots offering are readily taken by millers. Fowl wheat is scarce, and nearly all orders are being supplied with medium milling quality. Seconds and broken wheat is in fair supply, but is not greatly in favor with buyers. Quotations : Prime milling, 4s sc! to 4s 6d ; medium do and best whole fowl wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 5d ; inferior to medium fowl wheat, 3s iod to 4s 3d; seconds, etc., 2s 9d to 3s 6d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. — The market has been poorly supplied with good sound quality, and all such coming forward has met with ready sale at an advance on late values. Inferior and off-conditioned lots are difficult to place. Quotations : Best table potatoes, £$ 10s to .£4 15s; medium to good, £2 15s to £4. 7s 6d ; inferior and stale, £2 to .£3 5s per ton (bags included). Chaff. — Heavier supplies are now coming forward. For prime quality we had fair competition up to quotations. One lot of choice oaten sheaf realised £2 9s, but most lots of prime quality failed to sell beyond 2s 6d to £2 5 s - Inferior to medium sorts have little demand at £2 5s to £2 15s per ton (bags extra).