GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 183, 4 August 1936, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

l POTATOES ARE DEARER. FOWL WHEAT ALSO FIRM. Since last report the chief alteration in the grain and produce markets has been a rise in the price of potatoes. The late arrival of the Wingatui last week found the local market bare of supplies, and there has been a keen demand in the last few days, stimulated by a firming in the South. Stocks of Whites were exceptionally low, and the price has advanced 7/6 per ton to £7 7/6. Small quantities of Pukekohe onions are available, but the quality is unsatisfactory, and merchants now prefer to deal mainly with imported lines of new season's from California and Japan. Canadians are due in October and November, and arc being quoted to arrive at 15/6 per 1001b crate. The chaff market has firmed in the South, and merchants have raised their price to £8 12/6 per ton. B Garton oats are unchanged at 4/3 per bushel. There has been something of a flurry in the fowl wheat market in the South, partly due to the influence of world markets on the general wheat situation, and partly to the fact that most of the undergrade lines have been cleaned up. Graded wheat is now quoted 2d to 2%d higher in i the South. The local rate has been advanced in the meantime Id per bushel, to 5/11.

Maize is still dear. Stocks of African and Javan are now very small and merchants are thrown back on the local article. Supplies are coming in more freely from the Bay of Plenty, but the price remains firm at 0/3 per bushel. Barley has a ready sale at 4/5 per bushel for clipped lots. There has been no alteration in the position of pollard. Local supplies are more plentiful, but this has not affected the sale of Australian at a substantial premium. Bran is in fair supply at late rates, Wholesale Current Prices.

Pollard and Bran. —Mill prices: Pollard, £6 10/ per ton; bran, £6. Merchants' prices: Pollard, local, £7 per ton; Australian, £8 7/6; bran, £6 15/. Oats.—Feed: B Gartons, 4/3 bushel; A Gartons, 4/6; clipped Gartons, 4/9; clipped Duns, 5/6; clipped Algerians, 4/6. Fowl Wheat.—Canterbury, 5/11 bushel; undergrade, Id to 4d less. Maize. —African, whole, 6/6 bushel; crushed, 6/9; local, 6/3. Barley.—Feed: Clipped, 4/5 bushel; undipped, 4/1. Barley Meal.—9/ per 1001b. Wheatmeal.—lo/3 per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.s., £8 12/6 ton, for Southern. Potatoes. —Table: White, £7 7/6 per ton; red, £7 12/6. Seed: Farly Rose, 12/ per cwt; Dakota Red, 8/; Early Puritan, 8/; Cliff's Kidney, 14/; Arran Chief, Gamekeeper and Northern Star, 7/3. Onions.—Californian, 17/ per 1001b bag; Japanese, 18/6 cwt case.