GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 180, 2 August 1938, Page 6

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

AUSTRALIAN POLLARD LOWER.

BRAN VERY SHORT.

Chief features in the grain and produce markets eince last report have been a reduction in the pr*ce of Australian pollard, a r W e in chaff and a lower rate for maize. OflFerings _ of Australian pollard have been freer m recent weeks, and the local price has been lowered to £9 .10/ per ton, e* store. An acute shortage of bran exists Merchants are able to get only limited eupphee from the local mill* and eome have arranged for regular importation 9 from Australia, which ate being rationed out at 9/8 -per hundred, compared with 679 charged for the local article. Potatoes are in keen demand, with no change' in prices. In horse feed oats are unaltered, but i the price of chaff has been raised to £11 per ton. J Onions are still dear. The initial Australian shipment has been practically , cleaned tip and only small quantities of . these and of South Island arc now available. Australian 1,9/ per IQQIb j s being charged, and for South Island 19/ per cwt. The position wjil be rtlieveS nsxt week, when n ehipment is due by the Waiotapu. For August del the price ex the wharf ie to be 16/ per bag. j;:iWheat and barley are unchanged, but jan increase in supplies of newfaeason's , maize has resulted in the price being lowered tp: 11/9 per cental, V. * Following are ;. latest; ;'qupta.ttdne, the prices being based on rates for'delivery ex city stores:— Pollard and Bran.—Merchants' prices: Pollard,, local, £7 W per ton; Australian. £9 10/; bran, £6 15>. Potatoes.--Tabler Southern white, £,% 10/; reds, £6 15/ per ton. '■ Seed: Early Rose, 12/9 per cwt; Robra Adair, 14/5 Cliff'e Kidpey, l?/3; Up-to-Date, 10/6; Maori Chief, 11/»; Early Puritan, 7/3: Button's Suprexne, 9/; Arv4n Chief. 7/ Ganjekeeper, "/; linkotu Rad, 7/9. . ~■ Ouione.—Australian and Southern',, 19' per bag and. cwti respectively. ■"-' ■ Chaff, per ton. 1 Oats. —B Gaitpnia, U/2 to 11/ p per ce, . tal; A Gallons. J2/4; dipped Gartbn.13/2: clipped Duiis, 15/; ciipj»ed Algerian 13/4. Wlioat.—ll/10 per cental. Hurley.— Clipped. 10/5 per cental. Baiiley Mea{.— \l/ per cental. ■ < ? ! Wheatmeal.—l2/6 to 13/ per cental. I Maize.—ll/9 per cental; crushed, 14/.