TRADE IN PRODUCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 328, 13 April 1928, Page 14

TRADE IN PRODUCE

AMPLE POTATO STOCKS MAIZE MARKET DULL Attention in grain, seed and ! produce circles over the past fortnight has been directed largely to the potato market, which has eased considerably following heavier arrivals from the South. A shortage of pollard is also giving a certain amount of concern at the moment. Local potatoes are practically neglected at the moment, and even In the marts auctioneers find consignments hard to quit. Ample supplies of Southern tubers are held on the spot, but the quality generally is not too satisfactory, due to the fact that a large portion of the consignments are not properly matured. This defect should right itself within the next week or so, however. Quotations through store, Auckland, range from £7 10s to £&* Though slightly easier values may rule in the near future, this price should be practically bedrock for some time to come. The Aorangi this week lifted a further shipment of onions for Vancouver. Supplies are being drawn from the South, and the quality for this product is also giving concern, as stocks will not keep for any length of time. Offerings of local onions are largely neglected, owing to the higher values asked by holders. Quotations through store range from £9 to £lO a, ton. The oat market remains very firm, although there has been no recent alterations in Auckland merchants’ through store quotations, which have A gartons listed at 4s lid, and 13 s at 4s 7d. An acute shortage of pollard is reported at the moment, due largely to a greatly stimulated demand. Bran is also in rather short supply. Arrangements have been made for heavier arrivals from the South. A healthy volume of business in chaff ?s being put through, with the market on the spot steady at £9 10s a ton through store. Fowl-wheat is meeting with a strong demand, though quotations remain unaltered at 7s 6d through store, Auckland. This cereal is the leading grain among poultry feeders at the moment. Maize meets with a very dull demand, though the market remains nominally around 6s on the Auckland wharf. Only very limited arrivals are coming up from the coast and, for prompt rale, holders would undoubtedly have to take up to 3d a bushel less for anything like a sizeable parcel. Exceptionally heavy sales of fertilisers continue to be recorded, with superphosphate and basic slag meeting with the greatest demand. During the past four months it »is estimated that between 25,000 and 30,000 tons of slag have been disposed of on the Auckland market. Trade in grass and clover seeds is practically finished for the season. FRANKTON STOCK VALUES BEEF MARKET FIRM r~ ■Dalsety and Company, Ltd., report having held their usual weekly stock salo at Frankton saleyards on W ednesday as under: — There was a moderate yarding of beef, which sold at late rates. Best young prime cows made up to £9 ss; ordinary quality average weight cows, £6 10s to JE7 7s 6d; small and inferior cows, £o to £6 2s 6d. There were only a few stores yarded, which sold at late rates. A good yarding of fat sheep sold at prices on a par with late rates. Extra prime wethers sold at up to 33s 3d; choice heavy ewes. 255; moderate quality ewes, IDs 6d to 21s 6d; fat woolly lambs, 255; fac shorn lambs, 21s 9d; forward woolly lambs, 17s 9d. A small yarding of pigs also sold at late rates. Heavy baconers, £4 to £4 9s; porkers, 28s, £2 10s to £3; small stores, 9s to 12s; weaners, 2s to 6s; small stores, 15s 6d. The Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Ltd., report:— “At our weekly stock sale held at the Frankton yards on Wednesday, there was .Prices for prime fat cattle were up on late market values; plain unfinished cattle were easier. Mutton sold, at prices below last week’s rates. Fat pigs were slightly easier, while all classes of stores were hard to quit. Best prime fat cows sold up to £9 15s; medium weights, £7 15s to £ S 15s; plainer, £6 to £7 10s; unfinished, £5 7s 6d to £5 15s. Fat wethers sold to 32s 7d; fat and forward light-weights, 28s; prime fat ewes, 26s Id to 27s 3d; fair quality medium weights, 23s lOd to 255; forward conditioned ewes, 15s 9d to ISs lOd; store ewes, 12s 6d; heavy baconers, £4 to £4 9s; medium, £3 3s to £3 13s; best porkers. £2 5s to £2 15s; lighter, 35s to £2 2s 6d; slips, 12s to 15s; weaners, 6s to 11s. MINING NEWS HAURAKI. —The manager reports as follows:—“At the seaward end of the 400 ft level the drive on the cross reef into the hangingwall country to locate the Green Harp reef has been driven to a total distance of 40ft; a considerable Cow of water is coming from the face, and the country continues of the same favourable nature. The Haurakl shaft is now 36ft below the 500 ft chamber. The reef mentioned in last report is a big formation composed of ribs of strong quartz and bands of pug and gritty quartz; so far no gold has been seen. By the dip and strike of the reef it will continue in the shaft for a distan ecdown.” KURANUI. —The manager reports: The rise from the Lennox crosscut has been extended a further 7 feet for the week making a total of 62 feet from the level’ The country is still of the same description and so far no quartz has been met with. The drive on the cross leader has been advanced 6 feet for the week, making a total of 30 feet. The leader has been a bit smaller for the last few feet on account of the country being much firmer. The quartz broken from here still looks very promising, and is verv heavily mineralised, but so far no gold has been seen.