FLAX GRADING RETURNS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1012, 1 July 1930, Page 13

FLAX GRADING RETURNS

A hig decline in the amount of hemp handled at the port of Auckland is H Shown in the returns for the month of June, compared with the figures for the corresponding month of last year. The figures for the various re grades are as follow, those for June Jt of last year being given in paren- ft) theses:— Hemp.—Superfine, f®); good fair, 100 (.270); high fair, 292 P 1 MO); low fair, 355 (254): common, SI m <177); rejected, 30 (38); total, 858 QJ U. 15&) bales. Tow.— No. i, 73 (156); No. 2, 111 dl (136); No. 3, 24 (114); condemned, 16 m (»): total, 224 (414) bales. di Stripper Slips.—No, 3, - %<■ tinned, k< PRESENTATION ON ’CHANGE Members of the Auckland Stock Ex- 111 Change waited after the midday call u Jhay to offer felicitations and make a 111 j reservation to one of their number, -lr. Eric Creagli on the eve of his, ‘jarriage. s lr . j. \y. Prater, vice- b nairman, on belialf of members, pre- v ; •tntecl Mr. Creagli with a chiming j and referred to his popularity • niong members and all with whom | P e had business dealings. j d EFFECT of high EXCHANGES “I bj High exchange rates ruling at the \ oment are hitting many firms with j, ha h B * Ve overseas connections very y ( «trd. Shareholders in Gordon and t h»i# ’ were informed at the p dZin yearly meting that £6,000 of the ti hiew e ln P rofita was the result •of i, «h exchange rates ruling. a