GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 27, 2 February 1932, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

WHEAT GOES LOWER. MAIZE UNALTERED. There has been no change fn the local market for pollard and bran since last report. Pollard is still coming forward from Australia, while the local mills have little difficulty in supplying the limited demand for bran. Wheat Prices Ease. Merchants have lowered their quotations again for fowl wheat and this brings the local ex store price to G/6 per bushel. A further reduction of about 3d per bushel is expected next week. Maize. There ha s been 110 alteration in the price of maize, which is fairly firm at 5/9 per bushel for Gisbornc and 6/ for South African. The demand is still good, but may be expected to ease off now that wheat is selling at about the same parity. Oats and Chaff. Oats are scarce 011 the spot and merchants have a difliculty in getting their orders fulfilled from the South. A line of super A Gartons new season's lias been purchased by a local firm at 3/6, f.0.b.. South, for delivery next week. The demand l'or both oats and chaff is so small nowadays that despite the shortage in the South supplies- from the new harvest may very well prove to be above requirements. Meanwhile, local merchants will have to wait for the Southland crop, which comes in later than in Canterbury. Conditions in the Southern province have been very favourable. Potatoes. Potatoes are very plentiful and city supplies come mainly through the auction marts and direct from growers to the retailers. The wholesalers' share in the business is at present rather small. Values are unchanged. Concerning the Southern crop the "Christchurch Times" says: "Potatoes have been inclined to weaken a little, as more farmers have been disposed to sell lately. The nominal price is 80/, f.0.b., but buyers were not inclined to offer more than 75/ yesterday. The potato crop will apparently not be heavy." Onions. Victorian onions are practically cleared out and the market is well supplied from Pukekohe. The probable yield from Canterbury this season is very uncertain, as dry weather has considerably affected the crops on the lighter lands. Grass Seed. The demand for grass seed should soon set in, but merchants are not expecting that it will be heavy. Finance seems to be the difficulty, as sheep farmers breaking in new country have little encouragement from their live stock returns to proceed with development work. Wholesale Current Prices. (Through Store.) Pollard and Bran.—Mill prices: Pollard, £6 per ton; bran, £5 5/ per ton. Merchants' jiriees: Australian pollard, £6 5/ per ton; bran, £5 15/. Oats.—Feed: B Gartons 4/ per bushel, A Gartons 4/3, clipped Duns 5/3, clipped Algerians 5/, clipped Gartons 4/9. Fowl Wheat.—6/6 per bushel; sample lines, 6/3. Maize.—Local, ex store, 5/9 per bushel; African, 6/ per bushel; crushed, 5/3 per bushel (501b). Barley.—Feed: Clipped. 4/3 per bushel. Seed: Cape, barley, 6/ per bushel. Maize Meal.— 9/9 p<;r 1001b. Barley Meal.—B/ per 1001b. Chaff. —G-b.0.5., £8 5/ to £8 10/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury. Potatoes. —Table, £6 15/ to £7 per ton. Onions.—Victorian, 9/6 per cwt; local, 7/0.