FLAX FOR EXPORT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 320, 3 April 1928, Page 14

FLAX FOR EXPORT

INCREASED PRODUCTION RETURNS FOR SEASON A increase in the of hemp ill the Auckland I rot mee corded for the year ended Maren 1928. compared with the .... folprevious year. The figures rea beind low, returns for the previous jear Si Tl n tal!L?oTs4 th baTe S S : '7T.I6O bale.)Tow.—6,S9a bales <5. IN hales). , Stripper Slips.—l4l bales Utl-lM) Stripper Tow.—l2o bales (3. bales/ Total. —10.154 bales 1., ISO bales). _ The season, generally, has „ r(^u ctioa ourable to millers from > Pf'knJ'. point of view, though puces have mained practically unaltered at th 27 season's closing rates. '\ith the margin between good fair JJld 1 grades millers have tended to the lower grade product. oualattention to quantity rather than ity. This is clearly evident in the _ turns for March of this i ea 1 on for that month being a go-d of the average grades sent in tor during the year. Two or three of the new companies commenced mfi-ing expert year, but to date their quotiis to have been negligible, and it v.iu e time yet before these concerns w any appreciable influence w_rei Although production to sevmaintained mostly at capacity & eral millers are now turning “ dosing tention toward fixing a date ior down for the season. Most miners fn j| Auckland Province are still worKme apd time, but several in the Manaw bar* Foxton districts are reporteo _.; n te r . ceased operations until after tm March returns for the current j as follow: big* l Hemp.—Good fair. 6 bales J®,- • ’ fair. 443 bales (SSS): low fair, y*(1,142); common, 327 bales * ’hate* jected, SS bales (35); total. (2,280). f*0): sec * Tow. —First grade, no bale f. j'j grad* ond grade. 284 bales < 2S4) ’ 365 bales <244>; condemned. «* o* total, 636 bales (586). - * b®*®* Stripper Slips.—Second passed for export# 9 b£k» ***