TRADE IN PRODUCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 695, 21 June 1929, Page 10

TRADE IN PRODUCE

AMPLE POTATO STOCKS MARKETS VERY STEADY Sun Office, 9 a.m. Spot stocks of most lines of grain, seed and produce have been ample for immediate requirements over the week. Merchants through store quotations show practically no change. of potatoes held in Auckland have been sufficient for immediate requirements, but a healthy retail demand had practically cleaned up any surplus, and the market is quite ready for two further shipments which arrive next week. The Waipiata yesterday brought a small shipment of approximately 750 sacks. On the spot, merchants ask up to 8s 6d a cwt through store for best quality tubers. Canterbury Onions Failing The end of the Canterbury crop of onions is now well in view. The quality, which has not been the best for some weeks past, is getting decidedly worse, and many Southern sellers are not prepared to undertake the responsibility of shipping. A few more consignments may come North, but already merchants are looking to Pukekohe for supplies to carry them over until the arrival of the Japanese crop next month. Through store, Auckland, merchants are still asking around £ 9 a ton for Canterbury onions. Sellers of Pukekohe onions ask up to £lO 10s a ton through store. Japanese onions are offered for shipment early next month at £ 9 os f.o.b. Sydney. Cereal Market Quiet The cereal market is quiet. Maize meets with a steady retail demand, but the wholesale market attracts little attention. Holders of the old season’s crop down Poverty Bay way are now readier to listen to buyers’ ideas of values, and today odd small parcels are offered freely around Gs f.o.b. Gisborne. Sales have been made at that P Odd parcels of the new season’s maize are finding their way on to the market, but, as yet, they do not make a very big factor to be reckoned with. Sellers are asking anything up to 6s f.o.r. for early July delivery or the new grain, but indications are that 5s Gd a bushel will be nearer the mark, once prices settle down. The wheat market is steady, and prices show practically no alteration. On the spot, merchants ask around 7s 7d a bushel through store. A large quantity of low grades wheat is offering, and this has a slight bearing effect on prices. Oats hold the firm tone of last week. B Gartons are offered at up to 4s 6d through store, with A’s 3d to 4d dearer. Produce-Boat Movement Ample stocks of bran and pollard are held on the spot and further supplies of pollard are due on the Kurow from across the Tasman within the next fortnight. The Waipiata, from the Bluff and way ports, arrived at Auckland yesterday morning. The vessel is expected to leave here tomorrow for the South, where she will again load produce for the North. The Waikouaiti, en route from Port Chalmers, Oamaru, Timaru, Lyttelton and Picton, is due at Auckland on Monday next. The vessel is reported to be carrying between 6,000 and 7,000 sacks of potatoes for this port. The Wingatui, from Dunedin and Oamaru, was to have cleared Timaru last evening for Auckland, via Lyttelton and Wellington. The vessel is due here on Thursday next. The Ivaimanawa is at present loading in the South, and. via Napier and Gisborne, is due here in about 12 days’ time. \ The Kurow lifts cargo v at Adelaide tomorrow, Edith burgh on Tuesday, Wallaroo Thursday, and leaves Melbourne on July 1 for Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Wellington, New Plymouth and Auckland. A vessel commences loading in South Australian ports. Melbourne and Hobart for New Zealand ports, including Auckland, about the middle of next month.