GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 72, 24 February 1937, Page 16

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

AUCKLAND .MARXIST PRICES. MAXAWATU POTATOES SELL FREELY. AUCKLAND, Feb. 23. Potatoes from the M anawatu district are of good quality and sell freely at.'£B 10s per ton. Pukekohe and local supplies are available at 4s 3d per sugar-bag. Onions are plentiful, and in luce of a restricted demand merchants have dropped their price to 9s 6d per cwt. Now season’s oats arc now coining forward from the south, and merchants report the quality as satisfactory, especially Duns, of which some excellent samples have been received. 13 Cartons are quoted unchanged at 4s lOd per bushel. Duns arc 3d cheaper at Ss 6d, and clipped Algerians are priced 3d higher at 5s 6d. Oaten sheaf chaff is unaltered at £9 2s 6d per ton. The fowl wheat market is very firm in the south. Local quotations arc unchanged at 6s lOd per bushel. The pollard position is unchanged. Supplies from Australia arc more plentiful, but the recent increase in freight rates will operate against any local price reduction. Business is fairly free at £9 2s 6d per ton. Local pollard is available at £7 15s per ton, but stocks are email and orders have to be rationed. Brah is in ample supply at £6 15s per ton. There is no improvement in the maize (situation. Small quantities are being placed at 8s 2d per bushel. Barley is firm at 6s per bushel for clipped and undipped 4d