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New Zealand Tablet, 10 December 1908, Page 17

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Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co., Ltd., report for week ending December 8 as follows : —

Oats.— The market is still very quiet, and very little "business is passing. There is slight improvement in the demand for A grade Gartons and Sparrowbills, but owing to the stocks hold locally being somewhat reduced there arc 310 linos of any size offering. Quotations: Prime milling, Is 7£d to Is 8d; good to best feed, Is 6d to Is 7d; inferior to medium, Is 3d to Ls 5d per bushel (sack* extra). Wheat.— There is very little wheat offering, and the market is firm at quotations. Medium milling is being used almost exclusively for fowl feed, but there is very little demand for broken and damaged fowl wheat. Quotations: Prime milling, 4s 7d to 4s 8d; medium milling and whole fowl wheat, 4s od to 4s 6d ; medium to good fowl wheat, 4s to 4s 4d; broken and damaged, 2s 9d to 3s 9d per bushel (sacks extra).

Chaff. — The demand has slackened off considerably, and the only inquiry is for prime oaten sheaf. Medium and indifferent lines are hard of sale at any figure. Quotations : Best oaten sheaf, £3 to £3 2s 6d ; extra, to £3 ss ; medium to good, £2 -10s to £2 17s 6d; light and inferior, £2 to £2 7s 6d per ton (bags extra).

Potatoes. — Owing to the small consignments coming forward, the market is very firm, good sound table potatoes bringing up to £5 per ton. Inferior and stale are almost unsaleable, there being no demand. Quotations: Prime Up-to-Dates, £4 15s to £5; medium to good, £4 5s to £4 10s; inferior, from £1 to £2 per ton (sacks in).

Straw. — The market is over-supplied, and prices have dropped to 35s for oaten, wheaten ruling from 37s 6d to 40s per ton (pressed).