GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1934, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

MARKETS ARE STEADY. GRAINS EQUAL IN PEICE. . There have not been many changes in the grain and produce markets since last report. In cereals the parity of values is unusually close, as wheat, maize, barley and oats are all selling at approximately a penny per poundThere is a fair sale for pollard and bran at unchanged rates. Millers report ample stocks in both lines, and, m addition, merchants are importing fair supplies of Australian pollard, which sells 10/ dearer than the local meal. Oats and Chaff. The market is firm for both oats and chaff, but prices are unaltered at 3/3 per bushel for B Gartons and £7 10/ per ton for chaff. , Wheat. The fowl wheat market is a little easier due to the belief that substantial quantities will shortly be available in the South. In regard to milling wheat, samples to hand locally, so far, have been on the light side, but when the main crop becomes available it is expected that the quality will be well up to last years high standard. Prices are not greatly different from those ruling last season. They are: Tuscan, 4/7% per bushel, f.o.b; Hunter s, 4/9%; Velvet, 4/11%, with monthly increments later, on for storage.

Maize. There is said to be a fair amount of maize still available in the Bay of but holders are very firm, and the bulk of the city's requirements are now coming from Gisborne, where large quantities are being held. Potatoes and Onions. Potatoes have been arriving in slightly larger quantities from Pukekohe and suburban areas. Merchants are quoting 4/6 per sugar bag. Onions from Pukekohe are in steady supply, and realise from 3/3 to 3/6 peri sugar bag.

Seeds. Of the Southern seeds market the "Otago Daily Times" says: —Sellers of old season's seeds are very firm in their ideas of value, and the new season's seeds are expected to open up at higher levels. The crops of both ryegrass and cocksfoot in Canterbury are much below the average. A spell of fine weather from now on would help the ryegrass crops in Otago and Southland very considerably. Given fine weather the yields in these two provinces should be good and the condition of the seeds very satisfactory. The market for cowgrass and clover grown in Marlborough continues very firm.

Wholesale Current Prices. Pollard and Brat.—Mil] prices: Pollard, £6 per ton; bran, £6 per ton. Merchants' prices: Pollard, local, £6 5/ per ton; Australian, £6 15/; bran, £6 5/. Oate. —Feed: B Gartons, 3/3 per bushel; A Gartons, • 3/6; clipped duns, 4/3; clipped Algerians, New Zealand, 4/6; clipped Gartons, 3/9. Fowl graded, 4/10 per bushel; undergrade, from 4/6 upwards. Maize.—4/6 per bushel. Barley.—Feed: Clipped. 4/ per bushel. Seed: Cape, 5/ per bushel. Maize Meal.—9/6 per 1001b. Barley Meal.—B/6 per 1001b. Wheat Meal.—7/6 per 1001b. Chaff. — G.b.0.5., £7 10/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury. Potatoes.—Table: Pukekohe, 4/6 per sugar bag. Onions.—Local, 3/3 to 3/6 per sugar bag.