GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 215, 11 September 1928, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

WHEAT MARKET FIRMER. ONIONS ALSO DEAR. MAIZE UNALTERED. There is little change to report in the local potato market and no alteration in values. Large quantities are on the wharf, but they are criefly the property of one Southern firm, which has placed a reserve on them. Generally speaking the market is stable at about £8 15/ per ton, ex store, and local merchants have no anxiety as to future supplies being available from the South as needed. Onions. The onion market is considerably firmer. "The shipment of Canadian on the Aorangi only totalled 750 cases and practically the whole shipment had been sold for distribution, ex the ship's side. Original purchasers had bought at 18/6 per case, but resales have been made on the basis of 20/ to 22/6. Californian are expected next week and will be worth similar values. Meanwhile merchants are getting rid of their Japanese stocks and commitments, of which there are still some smafl quantities to arrive, as they will not keep long at this season. Applications for additional space for Canadian onions, September shipment, have so far not met with a satisfactory response. Maize. There is no change in the position in regard to maize. Gisborne merchants report that growers in the Poverty Bay disbrict are disposed to hold rather than' accept current offerings and practically no business is being ddne with that centre at the present time. The Gisborneites have investigated the position and have come to the conclusion that November will find Bay of Plenty supplies exhausted and that subsequently they will be able to get their price. Meantime the position has been further weakened by the action of Wellington merchants in importing large quantities of crushed maize, duty free, from Australia. Current rates still hold at 6/6 per bushel, ex store, for Bay of Plenty maize, with 2d premium for Gisborne. Wheat. The wheat market has firmed' up since last report and although the curent rate of 7/6 per bushel, ex store, is unaltered, the general tone has stiffened consider* ably. Southern quotations are Id to lHd per bushel higher. Despite the large stocks held in the South growers are apparently combining to some purpose. Oats and Chaff. There are no alterations to record in the price of oats and chaff, for which the demand has been lessened by the gradual advent of spring conditions. Bran and Pollard. Both these lines are in*ample supply and quotations are unchanged. Wholesale Current Prlees. Sharps and Bran.—Mill prices: Sharps, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 per ton. Merchants' quotations, ex store: Pollard, £10 ¥i "THi £8 IQ /5 o»ts, feed, B Gartons, 4/7, A Gartons, 4/11 per bushel; clipped Dunne, 5/9; clipped Gartons, 5/6; seed Algerians, 6/; fowl wheat, 7/6 per bushel; maize, new season, 6/6, ex store; Gisborne, 6/8; barley, feed, 5/9 per bushel; Cape barley, seed, 6/6 per bushel; maize meal, 14/ per 1001b; barley meal, 13/ per 1001b, £9 5/ per ton, for Blenheim or Canterbury. Potatoes—Canterbury, £8 15/ per ton. Seed Lines.—Arran Chief, Northern Star and Gamekeeper, 8/ per cwt; Early Puritan, 9/. ■ 17/6 per crate; Californian and Canadian, ex wharf, 18/6, resales, 20/ to 22/6.