GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 268, 12 November 1935, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

OATS FROM AUSTRALIA. MAIZE FROM SOUTH AFRICA. There have not been many .changes in the local grain ami produce markets since hi«t report. Southern potatoes arc almost finished with for the present ecaepn, though small quantities are still being dealt in on the bask of £11 per ton. The Pukckohc crop its coming out in capital order, but digging is interfered with by recent broken iveatlfcr, and the market' is sensitive to any interruption in supplies. There has been a slight easing ill values. Californian and Canadian imports still supply the city's onion requirements. Since hist report the market has hardened slightlv, as the opinion is growing that stocks* will all be needed to carry on until the Pukekohe crop is available. The only Change In tho market for pollard ie an easing in Melbourne quotations, but there is not a weekly service from thiit port, and the benefit of the reduction will not be felt locally until Victorian supplies arrive about December 1. Meanwhile there is a good demand both for Australian and for local pollard. The rush for bran has eased off, but the quantities available are still barely sufficient for immediate requirements. The shortage of Southern feed oats resulted in consignments being brought over from Australia, and the first came to hand last week. It is a good many years since such importations have been necessary. The samples have opened up only moderately well. Quality is irregular, and it would appear that grading has not been given sufficient attention. The local price is the same as for B Gartons, namely 4/10 per bushel, ex store. It is by no means certain that merchants could secure further supplies from the South to sell at this figure. Chaff is unaltered at £8 per ton. Ihe demand is slack. Canterbury fowl wheat is now practically off the local market, which is being wholly supplied from Australia through the Wheat Board. There is a good demand at 5/7 per bushel. Maize supplies are still hard to obtain, and the market is firm at 5/10 per bushel, with business restricted by the high prices asked. To meet the position arrangements have been made for a shipment from South Africa, and thie is due to arrive in March. Australian barley is still coming forward regularly, but merchants are restricting their orders to hand-to-mouth requirements, in the belief that new season's crop, available in December, will open at a lower rate. Wholesale Current PHces. Pollard and Bran.—Mill prices: Pollard, £7 per ton; bran, £6 per ton. Merchants' prices: Pollard, local, £7 5/ per ton; Australian, £7 15/; bran, £6 10/; Australian bran, £7 10/ to £7 12'6. Oate.—Feed: B, Gartons and Australian, 4/10 per bushel; A Gartone, 5/; clipped duns, 5/9; clipped Algerians, 4/9; clipped A Gartons, 5/3. Fowl Wheat.—Australian, 5/7 per bushel. Maize. —5/10 per bushel. Barley.—Feed: Clipped, 4/5 per bushel. Seed: Cape, 5/6 per bushel. Barley Meal.—o/6 per 1001b. • Wheatmeal.—lo/3 per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £S per ton, for Southern. Potatoes.—Southern, 11/ per cwt; Pukekohe, 16/ on trucks. Onions. —Canadian and Californian, 17/ >»r 10011) hag.