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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 392, 2 June 1908, Page 4

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Grain Report

Mr F. Pownall, of the N.Z. and Canterbury Farmers’ Co-Operative Associations, Wellington, report as follows, all quotations being f.0.b., port of shipment, sacks free: Oats —Urgent coastal requirements call for business transpiring, and limited shipments of milling and feed for Eastern Australia; current values restrict .speculation, stores showing sighs of congestion, b grade Danish rule at 2s yd, s-bills 2s Cartons 2s Sd, seeds 3s, Imperial Algerians 3s 1 id. Wheat —Farmers are withholding supplies, irregularly gauging value of wheat by Trusts quotations for flour, compelling them to cost above increasing indents from Adelaide ; latter are accepting 4s 3d for milling, Dominion asking 5s ; fowl feed 4s rod. PotatoesSuperior quality of N.Z. grown is checking imports from Australia, whites finding ready clearance at £5, blues 105 s; will yet see more money. Maize—Nominally 5s 6d; new crops nearly ready. Barley— Small turnover; malting 5s 3d, feed 4s 3d. Beans —Sound crushers available at 4s 3d. Peas —Partridge quiet 4s 6d, split £ls 16s. Bran —Holds at £6 5s ; output shortening. Pollard- — Readily quitted at 10s. Oatmeal —25s list at rolled oats oatina 10s 6d. Chaff — Values hold good at 105 s for best bright medium 90s, rye-corn chaff 755, straw chaff 60s ; tendency upward.