GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 17

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Messrs Donald KeiJ and Co. (Limited) report having held their weekly auction sale of grain and produce at their slores on Monday, when they offered a full catalogue. For most of the lines on offer bidding wa? slack, and a large part of the catalogue had to be passed in owing to lack of competition.

Oat 3. — The market is unchanged. Export business is on a very small scale, and sales are practically confined to small lota for local use. We quote : Prime milling and seed lines, 2s 6d to 2s lOd , good to best feed, 2s 4d to 2s 5Jd ; inferior cud medium, 2s to 2s 3d per bushel (sacks extra). ' ' Wheat. — Millers' attentions are confined to lines of prime northern wheat (velvet preferred). Southern wheat, unless of exceptionally good quality, is not in favour. Medium milling is difficult to quit, except for fowl wheat. This is offering plentifully, and is saleable only at slightly reduced rates. We quote: Prime milling, 3s lOd to 4s 3d ; medium, 3s 3d to 3s 9d ; best whole fowl -wheat, 3s to 3s Id ; broken and damaged, % 2s 6d to 2s lOd per bushel (sacks extra).

Barley. — There is little inquiry, and quotations are nominally unchanged.

Potatoes. — Stocks on hand are more than sufficient for local requirements, and sales are difficult to effect on the basis of late quotations. AYe quote Prime Derwents, £3 to £3 7s 6d; others. £2 10s to £2 15s per ton (bags in)

Cliaff— The market is well supplied ivitn chaff of medium quality, for which there is only moderate demand. Prime oaten sheaf is offering sparingly, and commands ready sale at late values. We quote • Prime oaten sheaf, £4 5s to £4 12s 6d; medium to good, £3 5s to £4 ; inferior and straw chaff, £2 to £2 15s per ton (bags extra).

Turnips. — We offered several trucks to-day, and sold good swedes at 13s 6d to 14s ; selected, to 15s per ton (loose, ex truck).

MeS3rs Dalgety and Co. (Limited), Dunedin, report having held their weekly auction sale on Monday, when a full catalogue of gTain and produce was submitted to a good attendance of buyers. The demand, however, was only moderate, bidding at times being very slow, wjth the result that several lines weie passed in. Values ruled as under —

Oats. — The market remains much the same as last week, very little business being put through. We reported last week a little more inquiry for export, but up to the present no sales for anything like a quantity have been made. Business is still confined to local consumers for feed and seed lines. The bulk of the oats ai riving are being taken into store and held in the meantime. We quote Prime milling, 2s 6d to 2s 7Jd ; prime seed, 2s 7d to 2s 9d ; good to best feed, 2s Id te 2s SW ; inferior to medium, 2s to 2s 4d (sacks extra).

Wheat — There is no improvement to report. The market for prime milling is unaltered owing to millers' immediate requirements being well filled. Medium quality is still unasked for, and is hard to quit except at fowl feed quotations. Fowl wheat, aithcugh offering freely, still meets v.ith a fan sale at quotations. We quotePrime milling. Is 10c! to 4s 3d : mediunn to good, 3s 3d to 1, 9d , whole fowl feed, 2s lOd to 3s Id: broken, 2s 6d to 2s 9d (sacks extra).

Potatoes. — The mitiket io well supplied, and in co'iscqiionce of consignments coming forward more freely sales have been made during the last \\pek at 10s below last quotations. We quote. Prime Di-rwents, £\ 2a 6d to £i 7s 6d , medium. £-2 15s to £3 (sacks in).

Chaff — Consignments of medium quality still come forward freely, consequently the market has experienced a further drop. This quality chaff is hard to quit at quotations, but prime blight heavy lines meet ■with a. ready «ale. We quote: Prime bright c^ten shc-af, £3 17s 6d to £4 7s Gd; medium to good. ±i 2s Cd to £3 12s Cd , inferior to medium, £2 10s to £3 2s 6d.

Turnips — Consignments are coming foruaid steadily, and are being sold at last wetk's rates — 13s to 13? Gd (loose, ex truck).