GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 14

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Pollard Scarce in Auckland Dominion Special Service. Auckland. Ma.v 19. The position in regard to potatoes has improved as substantial quantities hate come forward from Canterbury. The qual’fy is better, this being partly due to the speedier transit that has been available from Lyttelton. The quotation is £9/2/6 per ton. (Inions are in plentiful supply fro.n Pttkekohe and are quoted at 7/- per cwt., but. it is expected that the price will appreciate before long when storage and picking-over charges .arc added. There is no change in B. Garton oats, which sell at 4/- per bushel. Spot stock* of chaff have been extremely short but the IVnipinta brought a quantity from Picton which cased the position. 'l'here is a good demand for fowl wheat wilh no change in prices. The market for maize is well supplied with South African and Java shipments. Small samples of new season's Bay «' Plenty maize have reached tlie city. The quotation for whole and crushed i* 6/7 per bushel. A I'eiilur’’ of the liu-al market is the scarcity and high price of pollard, which is dearer than it has been fur many years. Smiplies arc available from the local mills, lint only in limited ipiantitins. ami tlm-s 1 are severely rationed. Southern mills have none to spare, which throws the hulk of the demand on Australia, where the market is very firm. Merchant* report lhat supplies arc available, but flint prices arc steadily moving iipwar.'.s. nn<l thor quotation at for th»livery through store is £9/12/6 per ton.