GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

ONIONS RISE IN PRICE,

WHEAT AND MAIZE UNALTERED.

Potatoes are not quite so plentiful at the moment, but ample supplies are expected from the South shortly and the local price of £7 10/ per ton, ex store, Still holds good. The Southern market is reported to have firmed up, due to reports of disease in the crops, but as these reports are more or less seasonal, local merchants are not evincing any anxiety ae to future supplies. Onions. Onions, on the other hand, have shown a definite rise in value, the present wholesale price being 11/ to 12/ per cwt against 9/ to 9/6 a week ago. Auckland dealers do not epeak well of the quality of the onions coming up at present., only a small proportion being fit to keep. Quotations have been received from Vancouver for Canadian onions for SeptemberOctober shipment, and it is understood these will land at about the same price as last year. Maize. The maize market is firm, particularly for Gisiborne supplies, and the advance recorded last week has been fully sustained. Oats and Chaff. Just as firm but more stable is the position of the oats market. Whether the export trade to London continues or not it is now recogised here that sufficient oats have beep sent out of the country to place the market position in favour of vendors, and it does not appear likely that local values will recede. There is a fair inquiry for oats from poultry keepers, who select clipped Gartons, for which 5/6 per bushel is charged. Clipped Dunns are sold for racehorses and command the same figure. . In view of the higher price of graded oats a few lines of undergrade have come upon the local market, but for these there is no standard value. Chaff is still selling at £9 10/ per ton, but in view of the higher prices now paid to Southern vendors, quotations will shortly be increased. Although satisfactory quotations have been received for Tasmanian chaff no actual business is reported. Rangitikei supplies are said to be almost cut out, and that district may soon have to draw on the South. Wheat. The wheat market remains firm, but business is quiet. In the South higher prices are being asked, but Aucklanders, confident in the statistical position, refuse to do more than purchase for immediate needs. The local price is still 7/6 per bushel. Bran and Pollard. Both bran and pollard are in extremely short supply and some small quantities of pollard have been purchased from Australia to augment the stocks that can be obtained either locally or from other parts of the Dominion. The scarcity referred to has had the effect of creating a keen demand for various ground meals, 'but here again the manufacturers are having difficulty in obtaining sufficient supplies of the necessary ingredients. Wholesale Current Prices. Sharps and Bran.—Mill prices: Sharps, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 per ton. Merchants'quotations, ex store: Pollard, £11; bran, £8 10/; oats, feed, B Gartons, 4/10 to 5/, A Gartons, 5/3 per 'bushel; clipped Dunns, 5/6; clipped Gartons, 5/3; seed Algerians. 6/; fowl wheat, 7/8 to 7/9 per bushel; maize, Bay of Plenty, 6/9 per Gisborne, 7/ ex wharf; Bay of Plenty, 7/, Gisborne. 7/3, ex store; barley, feed, 5/9 per bushel; Cape barley, seed, 7/6 per bushel; maize mealj 14/6 per 1001b; barley meal, 13/ per 1001b. Chaff. —G.b.0.*., £9 10/ per ton, for Blenheim or Canterbury.

Potatoes.—Canterbury £7 10/ per ton. Onions. —Canterbury, 11/ to 12/ per cwt.