THE HEMP INDUSTRY.
The hemp market this week is brighter, prices having advanced 15s per ton. A local miller states that on Monday he sold a parcel of “fair” hemp at a lower price than he had received for the past seventeen years : one hour alter the sale was completed he could have obtained a further live shillings per ton and three hours later was offered 15s per ton more than what he sold at. The quantity ol hemp and low at present in the local grading sheds must constitute a record, both shells being practically lull. The output locally is still keeping up but Hie quality is not as good as usual. This is mainly due to the very line weather experienced which tends the dry to fibre without bleaching it, and thus leaving the colour anything but good. Mr W. Ferris, Chief Fibre Expert, is at present on a visit to Foxtou, on departmental business.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 955, 16 February 1911, Page 3
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157THE HEMP INDUSTRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 955, 16 February 1911, Page 3
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