HEMP MARKET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2881, 9 May 1925, Page 1

HEMP MARKET.

APRTL CRADTXO RETURNS. The grading returns for hemp, tow /aid stripper slip* for (lie month of April have been issued hy the Departmen! of Agriculture us follows : The deluded porticiilors of ilia hemp graded wus us follows: U. Roils, (J. F. U. F. L. F. Coin A lie lan nd ISA 1002 988 10ft Foxton 205 1-10*1 174 18 \\ alma. .10 140 Wellington 135 3520 901 02 Riel on 88 Blenheim 100 97 1 Dunedin 88 58 - Rt. Chalmers Bluff 72 144 9 Seventy eight Imles at Pie ton were graded fine. Sixteen bales at Auckland, .82 at Eoxton and 132 at Wellington were rejected. The number ol: bales graded at each port was as follows, the number for the correspondng month last year being given in parenthesis : Fine 78 (15), good fair 912 (072), high fair 5122 (vlli-1 (>), low fair 2407 (888). common 204 (05), rejected 180 (188). a lolal of 9.002 hales as against 5719 for the mime period Inst year an increase of 8848 bales. Tile following shows Ihe number of bales graded al each port : Auckland 2290, Foxton 1898, Wairoa 190. Wellington 2780. Ricton 110, Blenheim 198. Dunedin 14(5, Dt. Chalmers 158, Bluff 1834. The folowing shows I lie detailed particulars of.the low graded:— (i. Ports, Ist 2nd. 3rd. Auckland 45 440 120 Foxioii 210 109 51 Wairoa 44 Wellington 1()5 505 45 Diet mi 52 Blenheim 83 43 Dunedin Di. Chalmers Bln If Twelve bales at Auckland, eight al Foxioii and sixty one at Wellington were condemned. 'fhe following shows the numbers of Imles in each grade, the number for [be eorrespomling period of Inst year being given in parenthesis:— lsl grade 489 (323), 2nd grade 1520 (877), 3rd grade 480 (132), condemned 31 (SI), a total of 2570

as against 141.3 last year, an in crease of 1157 bales.

The number of bales graded a! each port was as follows: —Auckland 029. T’oton 52, Blenheim 70, Dunedin 43, Rt. Chalmers 87, Blulf 482.

Stripper tow: —Fourteen bales at Eoxton and 107 at Wellington were graded 2nd grade and 19 bales at Wellington were condemned, making a total of 140 ugainst 100 tor llu* same period last year.

Stripper Slips: —Thirteen bales a I Auckland were traded Ist grade Thirty one bales al Auckland, forty uj Foxton, seventeen at Wairoa. sixteen al Wellington, 21 at Blenheim and twenty six at Bluff were graded 2nd grade and eight bales al Foxton 3rd grade. Thirty bales ; ,( Blulf were passed for export and I went v eight bales at Auckland condemned, making a total of 233 bales ib against 48 for the same period last vear.