GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 148, 25 June 1935, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES ARE DEAR. AND CONSUMPTION CHECKED. POLLARD IN DEMAND. The comparatively high price of potatoes is limiting consumption, according to a leading local merchant, and although supplies from the South have not been heavy, there are no signs of a shortage. Stocks bought in recent weeks are not moving off as rapidly as they do when prices range from £6 to £7 per ton. Onions continue in short supply, and the small quantities available from Pukekohe are readily placed, and go into consumption at about 17/ per cwt. The first importations are due to arrive from California next month. There is a rather better demand for horse feed, and this is contemporaneous with a sharp rise in the price of oats. B Gartons are now quoted at 4/4 per bushel and A's at 4/9. Clipped duns of good grade are practically unprocurable, and are quoted nominally at 5/6. Clipped A Gartons arc now up to 5/. Despite the fact that Southern wheat will be available 3d per bushel lower next month, local stocks are still firmly held 'at the former rates of 6/0 to 5/10 per bushel. It is claimed that if there was anything in the Southern contention that local merchants were making undue profits, they would cut their prices at the present time in order to meet the approaching lower market. Maize is in very keen demand, and, despite the fact that new season's is available in large quantities, growers have been able to maintain the recent price level. Merchants arc quoting 4/3 per bushel through city stores, while large quantities are being sent out by direct railing from the Bay of Plenty for distribution to various parts of the North Island on the basis of 3/6 per bushel, f.o.r. Barley is very firm in Australia, and merchants find it difficult to obtain supplies at prices that will compete satisfactorily with other grains. The pollard market continues brisk, with a ready demand for all the supplies available, either from tho local mills or from Australia. Prices are firm and unchanged. Bran, too, is selling steadily. Wholesale Current Prices. Pollard and Bran. —Mill prices: Pollard, £6 10/ per ton; bran, £6 per ton. Merchants' prices: Pollard, local. £6 15/ per ton; Australian, £7 5/ to £7 10/; bran, £6 5/. Oats.—Feed: B Gartons, 4/4 per bushel; A Gartons, 4/9; clipped duns, 5/6; clipped Algerians. 4/0; clipped A Gartons, 5/. Fowl Wheat.—Canterbury, graded, 5/9 to 5/10 yer bushel. Maize.—Old 4/7, new 4/3 per bushel. Barley.—Feed: Clipped. 4/4 per bushel. Seed: Cape, 5/6 per bushel. Barley Meal.—9/ per 1001b. Wheatmcal.—lo/ per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £7 12/6 to £7 15/ per ton, for Southern. Potatoes. —Southern, £8 5/ to £8 10/. Seed: Early Puritan, 7/6 per cwt; Enrlv Rose, 11/6: Robin Adair. 13/6;' Cliff's Kidney. 13/: Gamekeener, 0/6. Onions. —Pukekohc, 17/ fier cwt.