HEMP AND TOW GRADED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 8

HEMP AND TOW GRADED

The Department of Agriculture have supplied a return showing the . Quantities of hemp, tow, and stripper -': slips graded at tlio' ports of . the Do:'minion during tlio month of August. The total number of bales ot hemp • 'firaded was 10,065, as compared with . ..; DSOO for, the corresponding . month of last year, an increase of 205 bales. For : ..iilio twelve months ending August 31 ;.:>he number of bales graded was 148,231, f•. •••• " !,s compared with 04,322 for the pre- ,-■ -vious twelve months, an. increase of ' 53,909 bales. ; During the month 31.80 bales of tow were dealt with, as compared with 2758 „ tor tlie corresponding month', of last ' J ear, an. increase of 422 bales. For the ...twelve, months ending August 31, the number of bales graded was 41,183, as compared with 25,270 for the previous ~ twelve months, an ■ increase cf 15,913 bales. , .-■ "During the month the number" of • bales of stripper, slips graded was 275, , ds compared with 329 for. the-corres-i,;p°nding month of last year, a decrease of 54 bales. For the twelve mcnths .ending August 31, the number of bales graded was 6786, as compared with ~1933 for the previous twelve months, an increase,of 4853 bales. "^Employers.tf shearers and shed hania ;:. v : ,'are, notified in this issue that a meetfog those cited, in connection with tlie 'demands of the Shearers' Union; will bo Tiold in the A. and P. rooms, Jlasterton, 'Jin Saturday next, at 1 p.m. The husfc n'ess of the meeting is to appoint nssessors anil lo preparo counter proposals. •