GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 201, 26 August 1930, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES VERY CHEAP.

MAIZE MEAL LOWER,

The local market is glutted with potatoes from the South, and merchants are embarrassed by the unusually large quantities available. Those who have bought f.o.b. have to adjust their prices to meet the altered situation. Stocks sent up on consignment are being literally hawked from street to street, with vendors asking merchants for an offer. Present ex store quotations are from £6 to £6 10/ per ton, which is very good for the consumer, but hard on the grower m Canterbury, who must be finding the present low returns very unsatisfactory. Values are lower than they <have been at this season for many years. At this time last year the local rate was from £13 to £13 10/ per ton. > Onions From Many Sources. , There are still limited quantities of Australian onions on the market, but with so many in poor condition merchants have had to raise their prices for repicked, and are now asking 14/6 per cwt. A few locals from Pukekohe, Buckland and contiguous districts are being offered at 15/6. Culifornians still sell at ,£1 per bag. A shipment of Canadian is expected in a fortnight's time, 4 and these are quoted to arrive at 17/6 per crate. Oats and Chaff. There are no changes in value of either oats or chaff. The demand is very quiet. Fowl Wheat. Fowl wheat still commands 8/ per bushel, but the price is restricting business below normal. Maize. Small quantities of South African maize are still about, but the market is chiefly supplied from the Bay of Plenty. Crushed maize and maize meal from South Africa, whence, by a curious anomaly, it comes duty free, is on sale, and this has had the effect of lowering the local price of maize meal by 1/ per 1001b. Bran and Pollard. Both bran and pollard are in ample supply, with selling rates unaltered. Wholesale Current Prices. Pollard and Bran.—Mill prices: Pollard, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 per ton. Merchants' prices: Australian pollard, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 15/ to £9. Oats.—Feed: B Gar tons 4/10 per bushel, A Gartons 5/, clipped Duns 6/9, clipped Algerians 6/6, clipped Gartons 5/5. Fowl Wheat.—B/ per bushel. Maize.—South African, 6/4. to 6/6 per bushel, ex store; local, 6/2 to 6/3. Barley.—Feed, 5/9 per bushel. Seed: Cape Barley, 6/6 per bushel. Maize Meal.—l 3/ per 1001b. Barley Meal.—l 3/ per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £10 10/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury; Tasmanian, £9 10/ in hessian bags, £10 in New Zealand Potatoes. —Table, £6 to £6 10/, ex store. Seed: Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, 11/6 per cwt; Gamekeepers, Northern: Star and Arran Chief, 7/. Onionsi—Australian, re-picked, 14/6; Californian, £1 per bag; locals, 15/6.