GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 251, 23 October 1928, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES SLIGHTLY EASIER.

WHEAT AND OATS FIRM

Very little change has taken place in the local grain and produce market since last report. Even potatoes, which skyrocketed a fortnight baek and which usually fluctuate at this season, have varied but slightly. A week ago they were being quoted at £13 10/ per ton, ex store. . To-day the price is £13. The drop is scarcely justified by the f.o.b. position, as tubers have again firmed in the south, but merchants are disinclined to hold stocks for any length of time with warm weather coming on and small profits are being accepted to keep the sheds clear. Pukekohe is quoting new season's at 27/ per cwt, on trucks. Onions. Onions are still in very short supply and merchants are doling out their stocks of Canadian as carefully as ooesible to meet customers' bare requirements. However, they have had to concede 2/6 a cwt in price and drop from the high figure of 37/6 per crate to 35/, and in some cases lower. A new 'actor is introduced in the arrival to-day by the Maheno of a small shipment of Australian onions, which are being quoted at 25/ per cwt. If the quality should prove satisfactory more shipments may be expected to follow. Oats and Chaff. The oat 6 market is fairly quiet, but in response to a firming tendency in the south prices have been advanced a penny per bushel, namely • 4'B for B Gartons and 5/ for A's. Chaff is selling steadily at £9 10/, ex store, both for Canterbury and Blenheim. Wheat. Wheat is another line upon which an extra penny per bushel now being charged. The southern market has been firm for several weeks past and at 7/9 per bushel, ex store, local merchants are only now bringing their charges to a parity with Lyttelton quotations that nave ruled for some time. Mailt. No change has taken place in the maize market. Sufficient sullies continue to come forward from the Bay of Plenty and the local selling price is stable at 6/6 per bushel. Bran and Pollard. Both these lines are amply supplied from the local mills at present and quotations are unaltered. Wholasale Current Prices. I Sharps and Bran.—Mill prices: Sharps, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 per ton. Merchants' quotations, ex store: Pollard, £10 5/; bran, £8 10/; oats, feed, B Gartons, 4/8. A Gartons, 3/ per bushel; clipped Dunns, 5/9; clipped Gartons, 5/6; seed Algerians, 6/; fowl wheat. 7/9 per bushel; maiie, new iwon, 6/6, ex store; barley, feed, 5/ff per bushel; Cape barley, seed, 6/6 per bushel; maiie meal, 14/ per 1001b; barley meal, 13/ per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.ojs., £9 10/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury.

Potatoes.—Canterbury, £13 per ton. Seed Lines.—Northern Star and Gamekeeper, 8/6 to 9/ per cwt. Onions. —Canadian, 35/ per crate.