Kauri Gum Market

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 17 January 1912, Page 3

Kauri Gum Market

The arrivals for 11 days of Jan nary are 142 tons. The quantity that was sent for the same period of last month was 251 tons, which shows a falling off of 109 tons.. The market does not show much change. There are inquiries for the better grades of ordinary, but there is not a great quantity of _ this available. Notwithstanding this, there is no chance of prices improving, as the least attempt to make an increase in this direction stops business, and shippers are operating at a limit. Sales of other grades of gum are spasmodic and in very limited quantities. Pale select is salable, but not oV tamable. Ordinary : Resciaped is moving off if good. Inferior parcels are slow of sale. Sorted supeiior three-quarter-scraped ordinal1)' can be disposed of at late rates. Un sorted parcels are only selling at a low price. The demand, for medium ordinary is not quite so active. Extra well cleaned washed nuts are selling, but coated nuts are not asked for. Good swamp w;th heart in it and poor white swamp ate changing hands. Medium swamp is hanging fhe. Black : Good rescaped and bold lumps thoroughly sound and well cleaned continue in request Sorted threequarter-scrnped stool is salable. Unsorted parcels are not. Medium blacks aro in fair demand, also hard black nuts. More business has been done in poor black nuts mixed with whito swampy nuts.