GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 244, 15 October 1929, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES STILL DEAR. PUKEKOHE CROP LATE. Local grain and produce. markets are remarkably stable at the present time the only uncertain line being potatoes, which continue to exercise the minds of dealers. Values just now are very firm. The Kurow only brought 4000 sacks last Friday, and it is not known what quantities will come by the Waipiata now loading in the South, and due here on Saturday. Southern quotations ; are firm, and the opinion is expressed that f.o.b. quotations will go higher yet, in which case the local rate, which now.stands at £13 to £13 10/ ner ton, will be advanced to correspond. The quality of the tubers now coming forward is only moderate, and it seems probable that quite, a lot of picking over 'will be necessary before local merchants will be able to dispense r, n th importations from the South. This will not be before well into next month. Latest advices from Pukekohe are to the effect that recent warm rains have proved of untold benefit to the growing crops, which, owing to low temperatures and dry conditions, are a full three weeks late. A few early lines have been dug with 3%d per lb being quoted as a-whole-sale nrice. but it will be the end of the month before digging will become general. It is not expected that Pukekohe growers will lose much business as the result of the delay in digging, as the crops all over the Dominion are reported to be similarly backward, and it is expected that ihp champion district for early potatoes will be called upon by Southern districts right into February. Imported Onions. The market is well supplied at the moment with Californian and Canadiari onions, which are selling steadily at 17/6 to 18/ a bag, and 19/ to 20/ a crate. The quality is particularly good. Fowl Wheat the Same. Fowl wheat remains unchanged at 7/9 per store, with regular supplies coming forward from the South. Maize In Good Demand. There are plentiful, supplies of maize lust now, but the demand continues good, and as the price is on a lower parity than wheat, merchants have no difficulty in selling at the current rate of 6/6 per bushel. Oats and Chaff. Oats are steady at 4/9 per bushel for B Gortons, ex store, and £10 per ton for Southern chaff. More Tasniaman chaft is on order, but the quantity is not sufficiently large to disturb the market. Pollard and Bran. The position is unaltered in regard to pollard and bran, except that the warmer weather has lessened the demand for bran and the shortage is less acute. Wholesale Current Prices. • Pollard and Bran—Mill prices: Pollard, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 per ton. Merchants'' quotations, ex store: Southern, £10 10/; Australian pollard, £11; bran, £9 to £10. i ' ,-,-: ,/..-■ Oats.—Feed:'B Cartons, 4/9 per bushel; A Gartons, 5/; clipped Dunns, 6/3 to 6/6; clipped Algerians, : 5/9; clipped Gartons, 5/3. -'.- • Fowl Wheat.—7/9 per bushel.Maize.—6/6 per bushel. Barley.—Feed, 5/9 :per bushel. Seed: Cape barley, 6/6 per bushel..". i Maize Meal.—l 4/6 per 1001b. - • Barley Meal.—l 3/ per 1001b. , Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £10 10/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury; Tasmanian, £9 10/. v,potatoes.—Prime Canterbury, £13 to fcid 10/ per ton. ••trt 0 1 a^? 8 -r rCaliforni an and' Canadian, 17/6 to W a bag; 19/ to 20/ a crate.