HEMP AND TOW GRADING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1485, 6 July 1912, Page 8

HEMP AND TOW GRADING.

THE JUNK liKTUKNS. DECREASE FOK THE TWELVE MONTHS. Tho total number of bales of hemp graded nt'the ports of the Dominion during Juno. was. G092, as compared with oi2G5 for tho correspondi'ii? ' month of last year, ,un increat'j of bales. T'or the twelve months ending Juno 30, tho number of bales graded was 91,!i3G, as compared with 07,71!) for- the previous twelve months, the decrease- being KJ93 bales. •■ The grading at l'oxton was 2298 bales, as under:—Vine, 11; good-fair. 721; fair, 1518; common, 42; and rejected, 1; whilst the''Wellington total of 1860, was made up by 16 fine, 1019 good-fair, 790 fair, 29 common, and 6 rejected. The ricton total oj 236 was made up of GO fino and 176 good-fair. During the month 1591 bales of tow wore'dealt with, as compared with 1369 bales for the corresponding month of last year, an increase of 225 bales. For tho twelve .months ending June 30, the number of bales graded was 25,080, as against, 30,212 for the previous twelvo months, the decrease being 5132 boles. Details of the grading arc:— ■ ■*,■ -„• "i • (=( to sin ri« U-3 H Auckland - 172 58 - 230 Foxton 202 220 53 - 480 "Wellington ....353 237 38 iO C6B Picton 28 — 81. - 109 Dunedin - 22 - - 22 Bluff — 53 32 '— 85 Totals .....583 701 267 40 1591 A total of 338 stripper slips wero passed for shipment, and 5 were condemned. Of tho above Wellington contributed 201 and Foxton 131, the 5 condemned all being at Wellington.