PRODUCE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7, 18 February 1909, Page 257

PRODUCE

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report as follows : — We held our usual weekly sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we offered a medium catalogue to a fair attendance of buyers and following of the trade. Competition was slack, and consequently a number of lots, principally of oats and potatoes, had to be passed in for private sale. Values ruled as under: — Oats. — The market continues very dull, and little or no business is passing from this port; sales are confined chiefly to small lots for local consumption. Quotations: Prime milling, Is 6£d; good to best feed, Is 5d to Is 6d; inferior to medium, Is 3d to Is 4d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — The market has barely opened for this season's wheat. A few lines have been offered from the north, and some sales have been reported in this market. Millers are buying only for immediate requirements. Quotations are nominally from 3s 9d to 4s per bushel on trucks, according to quality and date of delivery. Potatoes. — The market is dull. The arrivals are fully equal to requirements. Quotations: Choice, £3 to £3 2s 6d; good, to £2 los; inferior, £2 5s and upwards (bags in). Chaff.— Arrivals have been lighter and values hare firmed a little in consequence. Quotations: Prime oaten sheaf, £3 2s 6d to £3 os; medium to good, £2 los to £3; inferior, £2 5s per ton and upwards (bags in). Straw. — Oaten, 40s; wheaten, 37s 6d per ton. Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. report: — AYe held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday. There was the usual attendance of buyers, but as bidding was slack and did not come up to our valuations a number of lots had to be passed in. Values ruled as under: — Oats. — The demand for shipment is confined to prime Gartons and sparrow-bills, at prices a shade below late quotations. Medium and inferior lots are only saleable in small quantities locally. Quotations: Prime milling, Is 6£d to Is 7d; good to best feed, Is s£d to Is 6d; inferior and medium, Is 4d to Is 5d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — Stocks of old wheat are practically exhausted, and we have no transactions to report. A few lines of new wheat have come forward from Canterbury, but these are not in milling condition, and have found an outlet as fowl fowl wheat at a substantial reduction on last week's quotations, the bulk of it having been quitted at 4s 2d to 4s 4d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. — Fair supplies of good quality continue to come forward. Prime freshly picked lots to-day realised £3 to £3 2s 6d; medium, £2 10s to £2 15s per ton (baas included). Chaff. — Supplies of prime oaten sheaf have not T)con so heavy, and for this class there is ready sale. Medium and inferior samples have little attention, and are not easily placed. Quotations: Best oaten sheaf, £3 2s 6d to £3 ss; medium to good, £2 15s to £3; inferior ami light, £2 to £2 10s per ton (bags extra). Straw.— The market is poorly supplied, and all coining forward can be readily placed at late quotations. Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co., Ltd., report for week onding February 16 as follows: — Oats.— The market is still very dull, the only demand boing for prime Gartons and sparroAvbills for shipment at prices below late quotations. Quotations: Primo milling Is 6id to Is 7d; good to best feed, Is sid to Is 6d; inferior' and medium, Is 4d to Is 5d por bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.— There is very little old wheat in the market and there are very few samples of new season's wheat

offonng. Ihese have been taken up as fowl feed at prices very much below last week's rates. Quotations (nominally; 3s 9d to 4s per bushel according to quality. Chaff. — Thero has been very little pi'ime oaten sheaf arriving and prices for this quality have hardened slightly. Ihere is still no demand for medium and inferior samples Quotations: Best oaten sheaf, £3 2s 6d'to £3 ss; medium to good, £2 15s to £3 ; inferior and light, £2 to £2 10s per ton (bags extra). •

1 otatoes. — Fairly large consignments are coming forward fully equal to tho demand. . Prime ireshly dug are worth from £3 to £3 2s 6d; medium- to good.- £2 5s to £2 15s per ton (bags in).

Straw. — There is fair demand for both wheaten and oaten, as there is very little in the market. Quotations: Oaton, 40s; wheaten, 3,7s 6d per ton (pressed).