The Hop Trade.
Mi 1 Robert Ananefil. aa enterprising! Australaiu colonist, Uas made a spirited .attempt to develop an export tr cle in liops from the'coicyinVs to Great Britain. i He recently arrived \v. London, bringing j j 400 bales of hops of 1883 prowili, fivm j • ])lantatio'nssituatedin Victoria, Tasmania, ! | Hew Zealand, and South Australia. Tlie , | shipment is said to be woil.ii £2. ',000, but < has not yet been disposed of, :is the [owners consider it qu; i* unnecessary in j th«» present state of the market to think of sacriut;in^ the hops by a -hasty sale. He lias had samples plaee-l in the f-isii-eries Exhibition at South Kensington, where thej attract considerable atten. 1 ion. The Shipment eoiu prises iOO bales froui hop gardens in theiirii.-inity of kelson, and they are eon.si(iered tu compare; f-»r<.r<tbly with any of other growth, aud to be decidedly superior lo American. One of the larije hop-growers of Nelson is about to import from England machinery used in packing potiud packets of hops after the Oalif<iriiian plan. i
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 30, 14 August 1883, Page 3
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174The Hop Trade. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 30, 14 August 1883, Page 3
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