JUTE-GOODS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 102, 24 January 1919, Page 8

JUTE-GOODS

J FfPERAL- GOVERNMENT'S TRANS--1 Aonoivs.

; .The Federal Government is rapidly '' S^W* 8 . transactions in con Tec( ™Wh*nmportation of corn-sacks : *Vn U'° ° ds tho Sydney Daily Telegraph" st at es . One or two cargoes.are. in transit to AustrnI 'Pv'to* vPracticallv-all deliveries' to ; distributors have been completed The I Government has remaining in stock, or I about to receive, n ..total of ' 32 000 which 5000 bales are coS ed .to New South Wales. The sci controlling :tlie loutput re(flood the market by releasing the whole ; stock at once,.because it would be t<, t-.the..detriment of those who haVealI ready, purchased from the 'Common'r wealth agency. The bags will bo supPlied at present prices to those who make-application for:them. The au- ; thorities; regard ,the stocks :iii hand as j: a Kood msuranca. against any possible , deveopment in connection; with the ■ Thp-,!" 8 " 0 / e °-"; " ;l - leat ■Pro'luction. r ihe.present ; fixed price -for bales to ;is 9s ; Bd;.per dozen, while Iμ'?' 1 ' 0 "' f - 6 - b -> Melbourne, from Calcutta, ,s ll s . 9d.''. The p,o.™,°J the: Government's transactions . cannofcbe determined until, nil stocks ! 3 bee " soW ' "?'J. final adjn 3 tments , niade ■■The admimstrative .expenses ; are stated to have been small, laviii" '•lMnV*} £12 turnover oi !.i,0U0,000 bales; which represents■ one- , twelfth of one per cent..