GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 142, 18 June 1929, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES STILL REASONABLE. NEW MAIZE READY SOON. Thanks to Canterbury, local merchants are well stocked with potatoes at the present time, and Aucklanders are getting full supplies at reasonable rates, the current quotation, ex store, being £8 per ton. The quality, generally speaking, is excellent. Onions. The same Southern province is likewise supplying the bulk of the onions sold here, but the quality is only moderate. The onions will not stand rough handling and will not keep long. However, they will probably have to suffice until the end of next month, when Japanese new season's are expected. Pukekohe had a surplus, but a shipment was dispatched to Sydney last week, and this will have relieved the situation from the growers' point of view. About £9 per ton, f.0.b.; was obtained for the shipment. Oats and Chaff. There are no changes in the value of prime quality oats and chaff, though the presence on the wharf of some consignments of under-grade quality from Blenheim is temporarily depressing the market. Oats still maintain the advance recorded last week for B Cartons. V/heat. The local price of wheat lias been lowered Id per bushel to 7/7. This is the cumulative effect of a slight weakness in the Southern market which has persisted during the past month. Maize. Only old season's maize is offering in Auckland at present, and for this values are unaltered at 7/3 to 7/6 per bushel. It is understood that new.season's grain from the Bay of Plenty has been offered for early delivery at 5/0 on trucks for .ailing direct to the Waikato. An equivalent basis for the Auckland market would be 5/5, f.o.b. Gisborne, and quotations have been received at this figure from the Poverty Bay centre. However, local merchants expect to buy substantially better than this later on. Our Gisborne correspondent telegraphs as follows: —"The maize market is showing the period of inactivity which is customary prior to marketing the first of the new season's crop. Buyers appear reluctant to commit themselves, and practically no forward purchasers are being made at present. Picking is proceeding steadily, and work is now well forward." Bran and Pollard. A fresh shipment of Australian pollard is due to arrive at the end of this month. This will keep those merchants who ordered freely well supplied for several weeks ahead. Others are having to place orders at current rates, which are £1 per ton dearer than formerly. Supplies of bran are ample, the comparatively mild winter rendering the demand less pronounced than is usual at this time of year. Wholesale Current Prices. Sharps and Bran. —Mill prices: Sharps, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 per ton. Merchants' quotations, ex store: Southern and Australian pollard, £10 10/ to £10 15/; bran, £8 10/. Oats.—Feed: B Gartons, 4'6 to 4'B per bushel; A Gartons, 4/10; clipped Dunns, 5/6 to 5'9; clipped Gartons. bf2. Fowl Wheat. —7/7 per bushel. 1 Maize.—Ex store. 7/3 to 7/6. v-vßarley.—Feed, 5/9 per bushel. Seed: Cape, barley, 6/b per bushel. Maize ileal.—l4/6 per 1001b. Barley Meal. —13/ per 1001b. Chaff. —G.b.0.5., £9 10/ to £9 15/ per ton,' Blenheim or Canterbury. Potatoes.—Prime Canterbury. £8. Onions—£9 per ton, ex store; £7 10/ trucks/ Pukekohe.