HEMP SITUATION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 11

HEMP SITUATION

Almost all the flax null* lijrvg !n6* stopped working. The big Miriuui miß, however, after a short stoppage, resumed operations early this week,. aiid given favourable weather should be turning out fair quantities of hemp' for export. Oft* or two mills elsewhere have contJiiiMd working, and may not atop unless ttirnpelled to do so by lieavy floods, Mo*t *f ! the season's output of hemp and iow wa* i shipped during May, and a small snrplun will in all probability be lifted before the 'end of this month; The disposal of stock* jineans that the industry will have a good start next, season uriencumbefeol by imsold stocks in the Dominion.

Market Gardeners^ Ltd.-, report prices for.fruit and vegetables realised at sal#s during the past weelt as tinder. Stipplies only fair, and prices medium. Fiji bananas arrived to-day in splcridid order; bnt values ire much lower than the' list Fiji boat:—Fruit: Apples, cookers^ 5s to M 6d; apples, dessert,- 6s to 9s; pear*/ dessert, 8s 6d to 14s; pears, eoojwrs, fls to 9s; tomatoes,. Hutt, 2s to 10s 9d; grape*/ 2* to 2s 3d lb; passions, 5s 6d to 8e fid box; tree _ tomatoes, 6s 6d to 6s; lemons, Caiifornian,. 32s to 345; oraflges, Csliforhisti, 328 to 345; bananas, Fiji, 22g 6d.: Vegetables: Potatoes, £8 to £8 16s; ofiione, 58 6d td lls 6d bag; cabbages, 6e id 19* 9d sack; cauliflower, 14s to 23s Sd sack: lettuce, Is to 6s 9d case,.; spinach,- 2s «d to 7s case; carrots, 3s to 6s 6d bag; parsiiips; 4s to 63 bag; swedes, 3s to 4i bag; rhubarb, 8s to 32s dozen; celery, Is to 5s 5d bunch