Hemp.
Millers are all full of work under contracts running up to the end of January, latest sales for future delivery having been at rates running up to £17 10a per ton. The present weather is terribly against the millers, who are as a rule eaUy be hind in their deliveries under con-
tracts entered into two or three months, or more, ago. Tbe market is at present rather quiet, but the millers with six or seven months' work in hand can afford to wait future developments with calmness, The fxports of this fibre for 1898 reached 4850 tons, as compared with 2770 tous in 1897, 2988 tons in 1896, and 1800 tons in 1895. The •* distribution of our shipments for 1898 was ai follows :— Tons. Value. United Kingdom 2,448 £35,778 Victoria ... 1,150 18,987 . N.S. Wales ... 600 9,067 I Queensland ... ig :T 300 South Australia 40 600 U.S.A., East Coast 132 2,241 U.S.A., West Coast 439 7,317 Japan 22 366 ' ! 4,850 £74»556 Ostensibly the United Kingdom took about half our exports, bat it is quite probable that part of this went by way of London for the United States of America. It is, however interesting to see that Australia took as much as 1800 tons, or equal to our? whole year's export in 189$. T j
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Manawatu Herald, 8 July 1899, Page 2
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216Hemp. Manawatu Herald, 8 July 1899, Page 2
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