GRAIN AND PRODUCE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23111, 9 August 1938, Page 5

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

SHIPMENT OF ONIONS LOCAL SHORTAGE RELIEVED BRAN FROM AUSTRALIA The arrival of the Waiotapu yesterday relieved an acute shortage of onions on the local market. A larger shipment is due by the Wanganella next week* and it is expected that regular supplies will be available in the future. The Waiotapu also brought a quantity of fowl wheat, and merchants will be busy distributing orders during the next "few days. Potatoes are in good supply. No advice has been received regarding thd ! possibility of export to Australia. A small shipment of bran arrived from Australia by the Niagara yestem • day, but this is not sufficient to fill the I demand. No indication of when supplied | will be available has been giv.en by local ' mills, and it is now expected that sup« I plies will have to be imported from the Commonwealth until the end of Sep* ! tember. Prices for chaff are slightly higher owing to a shortage of supplies. The prices named in. the following market reports are f.o.b. or Auckland. In estimating the price ex; store an allowance of 3d per 1001b. on; grains and 5s a ton on potatoes, etc.* should be made. * - ~ ,

POTATOES The arrival of the Wliiana from the South' Island yesterday has resulted in a plentiful supply of potatoes on the local market. The market is steady at last week's lower rat-ea of from £6 10s to £6 15s a tpn. No definite advice has been received by merchants of any export of potatoes to Australia, but the position is being watched closely. The opinion that there was little possibility of potatoes being: shipped to Australia was expressed in a letter from a Sydney merchant. ONIONS Onions have been practically unprocurable in Auckland during the past week, bnt the arrival of a consignment from Australia by the Waiotapu yesterday has relieved the position. Deliveries will be made in the next few days at the price of l<ss a bag of abont 1001b. A shipment of about 760 tons will arrive by the Wanganella next week. Of this quantity 300 tons will be unloaded at Auckland, and tho remainder will go to southern ports. FOWL WHEAT A further shipment of Australian lowl wheat arrived by the Waiotapu yesterday and orders will be distribnted direct from the ship's side within the next few days. Quotations are unaltered at from lis 9d to 12s Id per 1001b. Further consignments will arms shortly. MAIZE Stocks of maize are light and merchants are buying only as the demand warrants. Good quality new season's maize from the Bay of Plenty and surrounding districts is now coming forward and is selling at the unaltered rate of from lis 9d to 12s pe? 1001b BARLEY Australian barley continued to most with & steady demand at the unchanged value o? from 10s «d to 10s Sd per 1001b for clipped. Supplies aro satisfactory. OATS AND CHAFF There is still a scarcity of chaff, and further supplies are difficult to obtain owing to tlift weather delaying operations. Prices are a shade higher and vary from £ll to £ll 59 a ton. - , ■ u Feed oats is meeting with only a quiets demand. The market is steady at last weeks rates of from lis (id to lis Sd per 1001b. , BRAN AND POLLARD The shortage of bran is still very acute. £ limited quantity arrived by the Jwagara fronj Australia vesterday and a further shipment is due to arrive by the Wanganella next week. These stocks are not sufficient to meet the demand and local supplies are negligible. Trices have been increased slightly to £9 loa a There is a heavy inquiry for Australian pok lard Good stocks are held. Rates are main* tained at last week's reduced level of £0 10s to £0 K>s a ton.

COUNTRY STOCK SALES PUHIPUHI CLEARANCE [FROM Otm OWN" correspondent] WHANCtAREI, Monday Walter Wakelin reports a successful clearinp sale on account of Mrs. J. Williams, Puhipulii. The herd comprised 60 choice Jersev cows and heifers, and met l ® competition from a lame attendance of huvers Top price was 11 •> «>s for a cow close "t'o caß'insr. All the early calvers _bo d tI from fin to £lo ■>s,- while later carvers realised from X'T to £lO. T'™ l ™ co^' s n^ lc had inst calved made up to .Ll-1. A io very choice two-year-old heifers £7 wl. bulls UP to and a three-year-old eeldmg made £44 while a farm Rclding reahsed £32 10s. uoiw made from £ll to £2O los.

PUKEKOHE DAIRY RATES TFROM OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT] PUKEKOHE, Monday A SI ? a H J ; 8 h r B di m? n thly°dliry n ialeSu^ f°\\ r WH & hsssJ Pukekohe. X ® f„ r , was very keen foj of buyers. Competition )'j S f actor y s ale raj s£* ifsfoJSa £7. '