NEW ZEALAND'S HEMP.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND'S HEMP.

QUALITIES. g '/ ■■ . 1 H v'Thie total-number of bales of. hemp fj graded.by the' Department ol Agriculture h during .December was 13,233, a decrease 0 ot lirJ bales 'whoii compared with tho ii quniitity lor tho corresponding month of the previous year, in which month ll.Clii 4 : ■ bales, wcro iiandlcd. ' During the year ?' ending with'tho close "of 11)10, 126,814 ijales 8, were'graded. As the number iu tlio pre- j; rious twelve months , was 87,082 ira in- w crease .-of 39,752: occurred. Tow decreased f 1 froiii boles iir December, 1909, to 432S in December, 1910, a falling off of 1, 569 bales. - " . • v '10 ,Of the total hemp 63.1 per cent (5319 bales) 'was of the grado kiiown as "good ; fair." "Fair" claimed 29.5 per cent (3905 , bales). Only 0.1 tier cent (12 bales) was a; graded'"superior, and 'thbse dozen bale's hi were shipped from I'ictoij, 2.75 per ceiit SJ (366 bales) was "fine." Of tho tjuantity bj shipped to Auckland 119 from Toxton, f, 157 from Wellington, and 68 from Pictn'n. Tho;'percentage of ."common" hemp was ci 4.15 (553 bales). Twenty-five bales (Fox- p ton 10 and Bluff 15), representing 0.2 per fl cent,' were rejected, and 23 bales all "crcd- la ited to Auckland-were condemned. . ' j" The total outputs of. each 1 port,, was,: ft ", Auckland, 2097;.bales;,Napier, 37j Fox- w ton, 4113; Wellington 5131 i; Blenheim, 117; pi Pictyn, 219,; J3luf?, 1031; Dunedin, 463." . r< Tow is classed ip four divisions—first 5 1 grade, second grade, third grade, and coildeinnqd. Tho greatest portion was sec- cc bnd grade. The returns contain tho fol- ol lowing information: First grade, 14(11 A' bales; second grade, 1939; third grado, la 884; condemned 101 bales. At Auckland £! 61 bales were' condemned, 16' were con- rj demned at Wellingt"ii, and'24;at Bluff, n Wellington sent away tho' biggest total fli with 1787 .bales, - and Foxton was next a with 956. These figures show that the Pi ports of tho Wellington, province froni J! which tow," is shipped, contributed over Jj three-fifths of tho quantity handled by ct the Department.' Wellington's total was ; made np as follows:—First grade, SB7 bales; second. 725; third, 159; and coil- - dem'ned 16. The'details of Foxton's total . were:—First, .423 bales; second, 408; and "! third, 65. Wellington' and Foxtfcn between them S shipped 9219 biles of hemp which is near- tl ly. three-quarters of tho total for tlio fu Dominion. -• Wellington is credited with in 157 bales of fine, 3217 good fair, 1562 fair, '' 200 common; total 5130; and Foxton, with " 119 fine, 3310 good fair, 637 fair, 7 cominon,;lo rejected; total 4113.