GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 236, 5 October 1937, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

SHORTAGE OF BRAN

CALIFORNTAN ONIONS

Since last report a chief feature hae been a continued ehortage of bran. Millere are producing more offal than in recent years, but the demand for bran hae been greater than usual and orders have to be carefully rationed. An easing in the Australian "pollard market hae resulted in local quotations being reduced 10/ per ton.

Horse feed sells steadily, with no change in the price of chaff, while B Garton oats are quoted from 4/9 to 4/10 per bushel, a penny reduction. There has been no alteration in the price of either wheat, maize or barley. A fresh shipment of Australian wheat is expected in three weeks, by which time local stocks will be fairly short. With the advent of milder weather the demand for maize is slackening off. There line been little alteration in the market for southern potatoes. Supplies during the past week have not been heavy and local stocks are failly light. There is still a healthy demand, which is expected to last, though at a decreasing rate, for another three weeks. The first of the new season's Californian onions arrived last week and are quoted at 22/ per 1001b bag. There are still limited holdings of Victorian and these sell at 10/. Following are latest quotations, the prices being: based on rates for delivery ex eitv stores:— Pollard and Bran. —Merchants' prices: Pollard, local, £7 15/ per ton: Australian, £!) 5/ to £9 10'; bran, £6 15/. Oats.—Feed: B Gartonts, 4/9 to 4/10 per bushel: A Gartons, 5/3; clipped Gartons. s 'B; clipped Dune, 5/9 to 6/; clipped Algerians. 5/9. Chaff.-G.b.0.6.. £9 15/ per ton. Fowl Wheat.—New Zealand, graded, 7/2 per bushel: Australian wheat, 7/3. Maize.-South African. 6/1 to 6/3 per bushel. Barley.—Feed: Clipped, 6/4 per bushel; undipped. 5'H. Barley Meal.—l 2/ to 12'6 per 1001b. Wheatmeal.—l2/6 per 1001b. Potatoes.—South Island, £10 5/ to £10 10/ per ton. Seed: Gamekeeper, 8' per cwt; Sutton'e Supreme, I]/; Cliff's Kidney, 15/. Onion.*.—Californian, 22/ per 1001b bag; Victorian, 19/.