HEMP MARKET.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4500, 4 September 1930, Page 3

HEMP MARKET.

AUGUST GRADING RETURNS.

The grading returns for hemp, tow, stripper tow, and .stripper slips for the month of August have been issued by the Deparment of Agriculture as follows: — Ports G.Fr H.F. L.F. C. Auckland 50 153 167 9 Wellington • —i 324 196 21 Poston Picton 22 17 20 Dunedin 20 44 —* Bluff 10 . 91 90 18

Four bales at Auckland, 29 at Wellington, three at Poston, and 22 at the Bluff were rejected. - The number of bales in each grade was as follows, the number for the corresponding period. of last year being given in parenthesis:—(Fine nil (1), good fail- 102 (171), high fair 67'2 (981), low fair 481 (806), common 61 (404), rejected 58 Q-7IL), condemned nil (2), a total of 1374 bales as against 2535 bales graded the same period last year, a decrease of 1161 bales. *

Tile number of bales graded at each port was: —Auckland 383, Wellington 570, Foxton 67, Pieton 59, Dunedin, 64, Bluff 23i. The following shows the detailed particulars of the tow graded: — Ports . Ist 2nd 3rd Auckland 29 28 43 Wellington 4 122 - Pox ton ■ — 37 Pieton 28 ■ —i Bluff ' Dunedin -Two bales at Auckland, 9 at Wellington, and 14 at the. Bluff were condemned. The following shows the number of bales in each grade, the number for the corresponding period of last year being given in parenthesis : —lst grade <6l (26), 2nd grade 206 3rd grade 137 (189), condemned 25 (37), a total of 429 bales as against 754 bales graded {lie same {period last year,, a decrease of 325 bales. ' The number of bales graded at each port :; was Auckland 102, Wellington 135, Foxton 37, Pieton 28, Bluff" 120, Dunedin 7. 'Stripper Tow: —'There was no return for stripper tow for the month of August. Stripper 'Slips bales at the Bluff Were graded 2nd grade, a total number of 16 bales as against 104 'bales graded the same period last sear, a decrease of 88 bales. ..v, ■