GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 158, 6 July 1937, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

MARKETS ARE STEADY.

POLLARD HARD TO BUY.

The only changes in quotations on the local grain and produce market* eince last report have been in potatoes and onions. White southern potatoes are quoted 5/ per ton higher at £9 5/ to £9 10/. Red Dakota* are unchanged at £10 5/ to £10 10/. Southern onions are selling 1/ higher at 11/6 per cwt, while Pukekohe are firmer, but unchanged in price. Merchants again report firmness and scarcity in the Australian pollard market, but supplies are still coming to hand in just sufficient quantity to keep the market going. Bran is in ample supply from the local mills. Poultry foods, wheat, Jiaize and barley, are all selling at unchanged rates, and the general opinion is that these, and also pollard, are unlikely to advance beyond the high levels now ruling. A fresh cargo of Australian wheat is due by the Omana to-morrow. Limited business ie passing in horse feed at late rates, but the chaff market is reported as firm. Wholesale Current Prices. Following are latest quotations, the prices being based on rates for delivery ex city stores:— Pollard and Bran.—Merchants' prices: Pollard, local, £7 15/ per ton; Australian, £9 15/ to £10; bran, £6 12/6. Oats.—Feed: B Gartons, 5/1 to 5/2 per bushel; A Gartons, 5/5; clipped Gartons, 5/9; clipped Duns, 5/9; clipped Algerians. 5/9. Fowl Wheat.—New Zealand, graded, 7/3 per bushel: Australian wheat, 7/3. Maize.- —South African, 6/4 to 6/5 per bushel. Barley.—Feed: Clipped, 6/4 per bushel; undipped, 3/11. Barley Meal.—l 2/ to 12/0 per lOOlb. Wheatmeal.—l2/6 per 1001b. Chaff.—G.b.o.6., £10 per ton, for southern. Potatoes.—South Island, rede, £10 5/ to £10 10/ i»er ton: white, £!) -V to £9 10/. Seed : Early Rose and Robin Adair. 12/6 per cwt; Early Puritan. 9/: Gamekeeper, 8': Suttou's Supreme, 11/; Cliff's Kidney, 14/. Onions.—Local, 12/6 per cwt; southern, 11.6.