GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 194, 18 August 1931, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

SOUTHERN POLLARD DEARER. LOCAL RATES UNCHANGED. The price of pollard has been raised 10/ per ton in the South, but so far the movement has not been followed locally. It -would be difficult for local millers to advance their prices, as very full supplies are coming forward regularly from Australia, and these are selling at compara--1 tively low rates. There is a good demand, ' and the same remark applies to bran, 1 quotations for which are unaltered. Potatoes. The market is still over-supplied with potatoes from the South, and despite a further lowering of merchants' quotations to £4 per ton, ex store, consumption remains normal. A fair demand has set in for seed potatoes, but a spell of dry weather is necessary before planting can become general. Wheat. There is no change in the price of wheat, though Southern dealers have been asking Id advance during the past few days. It will be difficult for Canterbury operators to force the price up to any extent. Fair quantities are being offered from Otago and Southland, where there is a good proportion of undergrade wheat still in the stores, and the statistical position for the Dominion as a whole seems to indicate a fair surplus for the _ current season. Moreover, the competition of maize, barley and pollard all has a tendency to keep wheat from soaring. Maize. Old season's maize is now virtually off the market, as ths new crop is now being handled in satisfactory condition. Local supplies are coming from Gisborne, but business in the Waikato, which gets its portion from the Bay of Plenty, is stilf only small. Oats and Chaff. The market for oats and chaff remains quiet. B Gartons are unchanged at 3/8 per bushel, but chaff is easier, and now sells at £7 5/ to £7 15/ per ton. Onions. There are ample supplies of Victorian onions on the market, and these are selling at comparatively low rates. Californian new season's are being quoted for September delivery at 16/6 per crate. Wholesale Current Prices. (Through Store.) Pollard and Bran. —Mill prices: Pollard, £6 per ton; bran, £5 5/ per ton. Merchants' prices: Australian pollard, £6 5/ per ton; bran, £5 15/. Oats. —Feed: B Gartons 3/8 per bushel, . A Gartons 3/11, clipped Duns 5/3, clipped Al'-Tinn* s'. clipped Gartons. 4/6. Fowl Wheat.—6/9 per bushel. Maize.—Local, old, 6/ per bushel, ex store; new, 5/8. Barley.—Feed: Undipped 3/6, clipped 4/ per bushel. Seed: Cape barley, 6/ per bushel. Maize Meal.—lo/ per 1001b. Barley Meal.—9/6 per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £7 5/ to £7 15/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury. Potatoes—Table: Canterbury, £4 per ton. Seed: Early Rose, Robin Adair and Beauty of Hebron, 10/6 per cwt; Gamekeepers, Northern Star and Arron Chief, 5/ per cwt. - Onioflfh —Victorian, - 9/; repicked, 11/; Pukekohe, 12/3 per cws, < t