HEMP AND TOW. .

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1643, 9 January 1913, Page 10

HEMP AND TOW. .

DECEMBER GRADING FIGURES. INCKEASiI FOR THE YEAR. Returns compiled by the Fields' and Experiment Farms Division of, tne uepartiilent of Agriculture show time tne total 'number ot bales of hump griuleu at tlio various parts of the Dominion during December was 13,541, as compared witn Sl2O for the corresponding monih of last year, an increase 01 5421 bales. For the twelve months ending December 31, 1912, the number of bales graded was as compared with 8/,4i3' for the previous twelva months,-the increase being 12,095 " Jraies.Details of the grading are:— Good- CornFine. Fair. Fair, mon." Auckland ......... - 680 1,674 508 Napier — 110 " 2, — •Foxton - ' 720 3,261 79 Wellington' ....... 18 1,334 2,694 375 Blenheim 26 189 — — Pictoii / 63 108 .71 .Si Dunedin. 20 96 248 5 Whiff - 149 913 1 "•Totals 127 3,416 8,863 1,049 ■ Of the grand total, 38 bales from Auckland, were condemned, .whilst 11 bides from Audkland, 10 from Foxton, and 27 Iroin Wellington nero rejected. .During" the month 5331 bales of lowwere dealt with, as . compared with 2306 for the corresponding month of last year, an increase of 3025 bales. For the twelve months ending December 31, 1912, the number of bales graded was 31,690, as compared with' 24,895 for the previous twelve months, the increase being 6795 bales. .The details of the grading are;— ... Ist 2nd 3rd ; ' Grade. Grade. Grade. Auckland — . 514' 859 Napier 16 41 Foxton ' 124 ■ 570 302 Wellington .... 222 ' 1,331 ' 338 Blenhemv; ■— — 59 9 Picton ! 64 10 52 Lytteltoii v —' .90 35 'Dilnedin — 95 116 Bluff - 2<5 160 '••.'"totals' v .'...... 410' • 2,960 1812 Of , the total of 5331 there were 149 condemnations, as under:—Auckland, 105 j "Wellington, 28; Bluff, 16. ; The. stripper slips dealt with were as under,:— v Passed for. Con- - Export. demned. Tl. Auckland '71 , ]] Napier. 11 — 11 Foxton 311 45 356 ■Wellington .......!. 371 13 384 Picton 43 — . 43 Dunedin 21 — 21 ■ BlUff 74 .36 110 " 902 94 . 996