GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 143, 19 June 1934, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

SHORTAGE OF POTATOES. MERCHANTS I{ AT lON SUPPLIES. lland-to-mouth conditions prevail in the Aucklund potato market owing to a temporary shortage of supplies, and merchants are compelled to ration stocks. This position, however, should be relieved in a few days, following the arrival of the Waimarino, which is expected to bring a large shipment of potatoes from Canterbury, but as this shipment will come to a very bare market it is considered unlikely that there • will be any change in values. Supplies are being 3old for forward delivery at the end of the week at about £6 10/, and for immediate delivery at from £7 to £7 10/. Onions are still being marketed from locally-grown supplies at prices up to £6 5/ a ton, and these arc much better in quality than Southern supplies, which have to go into quick consumption at fully £1 a ton lower. Wheat and Maize. The wheat market is slightly firmer in the South, and values in Auckland are a little higher this week at 4/9 a bushel. The maize market is very weak, and the greater part of the business is still being confined to old stocks, although limited I quantities of new season's maize are arriving from the Bay of Plenty. Oid maize is worth about 4/2 a bushel, and new, according to maturity, from 3/0 upwards. >i Bran and Pollard. During the past week the bran and •pollard market in Auckland has shown the effect of the weakening in Australian prices, and a reduction of 10/ a ton in the local price of pollard took effect on June 14. Although a good demand continues, the needs of farmers are smaller at this time of the year, and the decrease in orders from the country, combined with tlio increased supplies arriving, from Australia, has caused millowners to revise their prices. The price of bran is unchanged. Merchants' prices have been revised in lino with the change in the market. Wholesale Current Prices. Pollard and Bran.—Mill prices: Pollard, £6 per ton; bran, £5 10/ per ton. Merchants' prices: Pollard, local, £6 5/ per ton; Australian, £6 15/ to £7; bran, £5 15/. Oats.—Feed: B Gartons 3/2 per bushel; A Gartons. 3/7; clipped Dunns, 4/3; clipped Algerians, New Zealand, 4/6; clipped Gartons, 3/9. Fowl Wheat.—Canterbury, graded, 4/9 per bushel: undergrade, from 4/6 upwards. Maize.—4/3 per bushel. Barley.—Feed: Clipped, 3/11 to 4/ per bushel. Seed: Cane, 5/ per bushel. Barley Meal. —8/6 per 1001b. Wheat Meal.—7/9 per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £7 10/ to £7 15/■ per ton, for Southern. Potatoes.—Table: Southern, immediate delivery, £7 10/; end of week delivery, £0 10/. Onions.—Local, 6/6 per cwt; Southern, 5/3.