GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 200, 24 August 1937, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES STILL DEAR. MAIZE PRICES LOWER. An easing in the price of maize has ; been the oiily notable change in the grain i and produce markets eince last report. | The market is fairly well stocked with , South African and in view of the early ! advent of local supplies the price hae been j dropped, quotations now ranging from 6/1 to 6 2 per bushel. Fowl wheat is unchanged. Merchants report that supplies of Xew Zealand graded are scarce, but there are satisfac- i tory stocks of Australian. j A steady but limited demand continues ; for hoive feed at late rates. There is no alteration in the pollard j position. Very little is available from j the local mills and the Australian market i continues very fir.ni. Quotations are | unaltered at £10 10/ to £10 15/ per ton and there is a good steady demand. Bran is plentiful and sells at £6 12 6 per ton. i The potato market has firmed up in the i last few clays. Spot stocks are not heavy and current quotations range from £13 I 15/ to £14 per ton. The demand is j good. . ! Onion requirements are now being supplied almost entirely by imports " from Victoria, which are eelling at 12/6 per Following are latest quotations, the prices being based on rates for delivery i ex city stores: — Pollard and Bran.—Merchants' prices: Pollard, local. £7 15/ per ton: Australian £10 10/ to £10 15 ; bran, £6 12-6. Oats.—Feed: B Gartone. 5 1 to 3 2 per bushel; A Gartons. .V 5; clipped Cartons o/9; clipped Duns, 5/9; clipped Algerians 5/9. ! Chaff.—G.b.o.6.. £10 per ton J Fowl Wheat.—Xew Zealand, graded 7/2 per bushel: Australian wheat, 7/3. Maize.—South African, 6 1 to 6/2 per bushei. " i Barley—Feed: Clipped, 6/6 per bushel; undipped. 6'l. Barley Meal.—l 2' to 12 6 per 1001b Wheatmeal.—l2'6 per lOCib Potatoes.—South Is-lan.l. £13 15-' to £14 per ton. Seed: Early Hose and Robin Adair. 12 6 per cwt; Early Puritan i) • Gamekeeper, 8/; Sutton's Supreme, 11/- ; Cliffs Kidney. 14/. Onions.—Victorian, 12/6 per 1001b bag.