THE HEMP INDUSTRY.
HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CABLE. The Iligli Commissioner's cable lated 21th December, reads: — The Manila market is easier, will ,crv little business passing. ..
grade values, about Oct "her-Decem-ber and Noveliibcr-Jaiuiary shipments, £56; January, March .shipment, £54 10s. New Zealand mnrkol ..lull, Quotations unchanged. Higl points spot, £54; December- I'chruarv shipment £52, fair £52. £56 1 irrespectively. • .
The Standard understand.- that the secret ballot instructed by the Flaxworkcrs’ Union on the question of striking on the wages issue has not yet taken place, and will probably he deferred. The stop-work meeting held recently was not largely attended, many workers being unable to attend. Evidence of how some of the flax areas in the Mnmiwntu are gradually being extinguished is supplied in a statement made to a Standard representative, that portions of a swamp whiclr at. one time produced H) to 50 lons of (lax to an acre now only give a return of five. The owners limk compensation, however, ii the fact that the land, when drainer and cleared, is admirably adapterfprjjrazing and dairy Hj considers that in a few years tin liaxinilling industry will be non-ex-istent along the Alanawatu lint owing to the ravages of disease.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2222, 4 January 1921, Page 3
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197THE HEMP INDUSTRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2222, 4 January 1921, Page 3
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