GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES ARE DEARER. AUSTRALIAN POLLARD UP 5/. I Since laet report there lias been a distinct iirmness in the potato market, and prices are higher. Arrivals from the South have been substantial, but consumption is unusually heavy, and all that comes forward seems to .be needed. Digging at Pukckohe is to commence this week, but it will be several weeks before supplies from that source will be large enough to seriously interfere with the demand for South island. The market in the South, stimulated by exports to South America, has kept up remarkably well, and the easing in prices, which was confidently expected in view of the size of the crop, I has not eventuated. Local merchants are quoting white tables at £9 '2/6 per ton, through store„and Dakotas at 10/ higher. The demancl for seed potatoes has almost ceased. I The requirements of the onion trade are fulfilled almost entirely from Canadian imports. These are of excellent quality, and sell at 13/6 per 1001 b bag. • i B Garton oats have advanced Id per i bushel to 4/6. The Southern market is very firm, and there is a difficulty m obtaining the moderate quantities required for this market. Chaff, on the other hand, is readily obtainable at late rates. The market for fowl wheat in the South is very firm, and local prices have advanced Id to 6/3 for graded lilies. Undergrade is obtainable at slightly lower valuations. Maize is still scarce and dear, the high prices failing to attract substantial offerings. A shipment from Java is due about the middle of next month. Australian barley is still selling at 4/6 a bushel for clipped, but the market across the Tasman is firm, and latest information concerning the new crop indi- ' cates a higher range of values for the j coming season. ! There i s a steady market for pollard and . bran, but an advance in the price of Australian- pollard has been reflected locally with a 5/ rise. Local pollard is unchanged. Wholesale Current Prices. Pollard and Bran.—Mill prices: Pollard, £6 10/ per ton; bran, £6. Merchants' prices: Pollard, local, £7 5/ per ton; Australian, £8 7/6; bran, £6 15/. Oats. —Feed: B Gartons, 4/6 per bushel; A Gartons, 4/8: clipped Gartons, 4/9; clipped Duns, 5/6; clipped Algerians, 4/6. Fowl Wheat. —Canterbury, 6/3 per bushel; undergrade. Id to 3d less. Maize.—Local, 6/11 per bushel. Barley.—Feed: Clipped, 4/6 per bushel; undipped, 4/1. Bailey Meal.—9/ per 1001b. Wheatmeal. —10/3 per 1001b. Chaff. — G.b.0.5., £8 7/6 per ton, for Southern. Potatoes. —Table: White, £9 2/6 per ton; red, £9 12/6. Seed: Early Rose, 12/ per cwt; Dakota Red, S/6; Early Puritan, 9/; Cliff's Kidney, 15/; Arrau Chief, Gamekeeper and Northern Star, 7/6. Onions. —Canadian, 15/6 per 1001b bag.