COMMERCIAL NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20507, 25 May 1938, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS

DRAIN AND PRODUCE THE AUCKLAND MARKETS (Special to Times.) AUCKLAND. Wednesday. No shortage of potatoes exists on the Auckland market, following the arrival of five vessels with supplies from the South Island. Potatoes. —Heavy deliveries are being made from the ship's side and the price to-day ranges from £7 to £7 5s a ton for whites, and from £7 5s to £7 10s a ton for reds, a drop of approximately b* a ton on last week's rates. Onions. —The through store quotations show little alteration at from 14« 6d to 15s per cwt. Wheat. —The market is steady at 11s lid to 12s Id per looib from store stocks. Maize.—Quotations are the same as last week, current prices ranging from 1 Barley—Clipped is quoted at from 10s 6d to lOs 8d per IOOIb. Barley meal also has been selling well, current rates ranging from £lO 15s to fit a ton. Bran .and Pollard Prices for pol-

lard remain unchanged ,t last week's lex els of from £lO 5s to £lO |O S a ton The rate fixed by the Wheat Committee also is iinrhanzed at £7 a fOB \ bran, with no alteration in the price. £7 a ton The rate fixed b> the Wheat *iommiftee K unaltered at £6 a ton ChafT and Oats. -The ehafT market Is Cma. xx *tb prices ranging from fto |fis to fto t:»« a ton. on a par with last week's levels. A very steady market is reported for oats, and only a fair demand Prices remain unchanged at from Its 5d to 11s *d per 100 lb. QUOTATIONS FOR WHEAT LONDON. LIVERPOOI. \\r» CHICAGO InieO r.H* a LONDON. Mav 23 Wheat —Cargoes am steady and parcels am higher Kiitirr- London: May. 77 s%d a quarter \.\ -n be r . 30s Pd L-x-err...oi 'fa 6s ‘*Jd a rental; Julv. *s 4Jd; October. 6s 2ld. CHICAGO. May 23 Wheat —May. 7*4 cents a bushel; July. 754 cents; September, 76 cents.