THE HEMP INDUSTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2137, 8 June 1920, Page 3

THE HEMP INDUSTRY.

MAY GRADING DETAILS. The following table shows the number of bales in the various grades at each port in the Dominion during the month of May: — Good High

Sixly-nine bales at Fieion were graded fint*. Three halos at Foxlon and 27 nl Wellington were rejected. Tin; nninher of hales graded at emdi port was as follows: —Auckland 2,082, Foxlon 1,578, Wellington 3,150, Pieton 83, Blenheim 93, Napier 591, Dunedin 309, Bluff 408. The nninher of hales in each igrado throughout, the Dominion was as under, the total for the corresponding month of: last year being given in parentheses: —Fine 99 (nil), good fair 2,533 (1,411), highfair 4,389 (2,981), fair .1,1.83 (1,839), common 90 (285), rejected 30 (42), total 8,294 (9,558). The following are the details of thi‘ tow graded :

Four hales were condemned at uickland.

The totals in each grade were as under, the corresponding month of last year being given in parentheses: —First 501 (197), second 1.011 (924), third 71 (412), condemned -I (15), total 1,587 (1,248).

Fori. Fair. Fair. Fair. Gum. Auckland HI!) 959 48(5 18 Fusion 2(19 1911 209 2(1 \Vcllii)”l<m 772 1977 ;i,;i2 42 Fie ton 14 — ‘ — — Blenheim 71. — — Napier 5!)! — — — Dunedin .145 Hi! ■ (i 4 Bluff (12 259 90 —

1st. 2nd. 3rd. Tull. Auckland 5(1 145 58 203 Buxton IB ■178 0 518 Wclliii'Auii 11(H) 238 7 541 Blenheim 8 0 — 14 Pictun uu — — 22 Nunier 80 — — 80 Dunedin — 47 — 80 Dunedin — 47 — 47 BIuIl — 102 ' — 102