GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1932, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES RATHER SHORT. ONIONS ALSO SCARCE. MORE AFRICAN MAIZE. Local stocks of potatoes are short at the moment, and in consequence prices have advanced. Merchants arc now asking £9 per ton, through store, but the position will be relieved when the Waipiata arrives on Thursday witli a fresh shipment from the South. Supplies from this vessel are being quoted to arrive at £7 15/ per ton, ex the ship's side. The forward position in the South is reported ae steady and firm. Onions. Onions are hard to procure at the present time, and values have again advanced. Canterbury grown, of which there (ire small supplies, arc quoted at 13/6 per cwt, and Pukekohe. which are likewise scarce, command 10/0. The first arrivals from outside the Dominion will bo from Japan, due next month. These will come via Sydney, and will sell at about 19/0 a case. Oats and Chaff. The market for oats and chaff is quiet and unchanged. B Cartons sell at 4/5 per bushel, and chaff at £8 15/ per ton. Wheat. The wheat market is steady and merchant*; are quoting 6/4 to 6/5 per bushel through store. There is a good demand. Maize. The market is still supplied with African maize, and another shipment is flue by the Karamea to-morrow. From 6/7 to 6/.S por bushel is the general rate, but crushed, at 5/3 the 501b bushel, is relatively cheaper. From all accounts it would appear that the new season's harvest from the Bay of Plenty will be earlier than usual. Of the position in Poverty Bay our Gisborne correspondent telegraph's as follows:— ''Supplies of old season's Poverty Bay maize arc practically exhausted, and export has ceased. The small quantities available are going into local consumption. In regard to new season's grain it is expected that a few very early lines will be ready in a week or two, and this is being quoted by most merchants tit 5/, f.o.b. Buyers, however, are restricted to Hawke's Bay and Wellington for July-August-September delivery. The price being quoted is 4/10, but Auckland buyers are not interested at this figure owing to large stocks of Javanese and African, and the expected arrival of a further thousand tons towards the end of August. "Picking throughout the district is now fairly well advanced, and indications are for quite a fair crop, although not equal to that of good seasons. A preliminary estimate is that the aggregate crop will show a reduction ,of about 15 per cent compared with last year, principally on account of damage done by floods." Bran and Polfard". The pollard market in Australia has firmed up to an extent that makes importation from that source unprofitable. However, merchants arc carrying sufficiently heavy stocks to continue selling at the old quotations. Bran is expected to sell more freely nnw that winter conditions have set in. Wholesale Current Prices. (Through store.) Pollard and Bran.—Mill prices: Pollnrd. £6 per ton; bran, £5 per ton. Merchants' prices: Australian pollard, £6 10/ to £G 15/ per ton; bran, £5 15/. Oats.—Feed: B Gartons. 4/5 per bushel, A Gartons 4/8, clipped Duns 51, clipped Algerians, Australian, 51, New Zealand, 5/9; clipped Gartons. 4/9. Fowl Wheat.—6/4 to 6/5 per bushel. Maize.—African, 6/7 to C/S; crushed, 5/3 per bushel (501b). Barley.—Feed: Clipped- 4'6 per bushel. Seed: Cape, 6/ r>cv bushel. Maize Meal.—lo/ per 1001b. Barlev Meal.—9/ per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £S 35/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury. Potatoes.—Table: Southern. £9 per ton. Onion.- , .-Local, 10/0 per cut; Canterbury, 13/0.