THE HEMP MARKET.
SEPTEMBER GRADING RETURNS. The return showing the quantities of hemp graded in New Zealand during the month of September has keen issued by the Department of Agriculture as follows:- — Ports G.F. H.F. L.F; C. Auckland 2 15 186 10 Bluff - Fifty-one bales at the Bluff were rejected and five condemned. The number of bales graded at each port was as follows: Auckland 213, Bluff 56. The number of bales in each grade, with the figures for the corresponding month last year in parentheses, was as follows: — Good Fair 2(50), High Fair 15 (63), Low Fair 186(144), Common 10(275), Rejected 51(169). Condemned s (nil), a total of 269(701), a decrease of 432 bales. No tow or stripper-slips were graded.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 5153, 13 October 1939, Page 2
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121THE HEMP MARKET. Manawatu Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 5153, 13 October 1939, Page 2
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