GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 114, 17 May 1938, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES MORE PLENTIFUL. POLLARD PRICES ADVANCE. Since l.ist report a chief feature on the local produce market has been the arrival on Sunday of the Wnipiata with a substantial cargo of about 10,000 sacks of Southern potatoes. These came to a bare market. and all merchants arc particularly busy in distributing direct from the ship's side. The price basis is £7 10/ per ton for whites and 5/ more for reds, and provides for delivery on rail or coastal boat. Later deliveries through store will be from 5/ to 7/6 per ton higher. The quality is said to be satisfactory. The pollard position in Australia is very firm. Offers arc by no means plentiful, and quotations have been .raised. This has been reflected by an increase in the local price to £10 5/ per ton, a rise of 10/. Bran is unchanged at £6 15/ per ton. The oats market shows little change, except in the case of Duns, good samples of which are scarce. Prices of these are about 3d per bushel higher. There has beon no material alteration in the markets for wheat, maize or barley. Onions are firmer, and the price has been further advanced to 15/ per cwt. 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, £10 5/; bran. £6 15/. Potatoes.— Southern, white, £7 15/ to £7 17/6; reds, £8 to £8 2/6 per ton. Onions.—ls/ per cwt. Oats.—B Oartons, 11/2 to 11/5 per cental: A Cartons, 12/4: clipped Gartons, 13/2; clipped Duns, 15/; clipped Algerians, Wheat.—ll/10 per cental. ■Barley.—Clipped, 10/5 per cental. Barley ileal— ll/ per cental. Wheatmeal.—l2/6 to 13/ per cental. Maize.—lJ/10 to 12/ per cental.