KAURI GUM MARKET.
AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Prices of gum this week show no alteration. A little tmying is going on, the demand being- mostly ior teefior grade gum. Buyers generally speaking are not anxious to operate at present owing to lack of facilities for shipping.. The next vessel for Rew York direct cannot be here before October. About 45 tons of gum were despatched to Sydney this week ty the Elingamite. "Supplies of aIJ
grades of gum for the month of August total 762 tons, and for the six clays of September 177 tons. The quantity of gum .sent in is falling" oIT, and this week a number oil Aiiistria.ns left, the colony. Trices remain as follows: — Poor ordinary £35 to £■ -12 Fair ordinary £4f> lo £50 Good ordinary £52 to £62 Superior ordinary £TO to £SO East Coast £73 to £75 Rescraped £ 110 up Weak rescraped £Sj to £ 100
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 212, 7 September 1899, Page 3
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