The Bag Question. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 22

The Bag Question. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, — Our attention has been" drawn to a paragraph appearing in one of the New Zealand newspapers reading as follows : — " Wellington, Monday. — The Minister of Railways (Sir Joseph Ward) has given instructions to withdraw the new regulation limiting the weight of grain carried in sacks to 200ib. He finds that there are large numbers of large sacks in the colony, and the Calcutta mills which supply New Zealand are not able to change their looms to make sacks to the size referred to."

The statement that the Calcutta mills require to change tKeir loams so as to make a longer or shorter sack is absurd, because the width of the cloth is the width of the bag, not the length of the I&ag, as you will easily see by cutting out the stitches on each side of a cornsack. Exactly the same cloth which makes our

44in bag makes your 48in bags, and the j hamc cloth will make a bag any length you please. I

Tho standard Australian cornsack is 44in long ancl is 2Jb^\\\ wide, weighing 2|lb, and made from cloth 8 porter 9 .shots; the standard Ne-w Zealand cornsack is 48in long and 26^in wide, weight 2|lb, and made from Bp. 9<5. cloth — being 4in longer, it is heavier in proportion. In fact, the same cloth, woven on the same loom, will make the bag any size you like, and will make a. sack to cairy any weight you please, from 1001b to 3001b.

Evidently interested persons are busy throwing dust in the eyes of your Minister of Railways. If the Minister still doubts our assertion, perhaps he will give us the privilege of supplying a million or so of sack? from tho same quality of cloth - and made to carry anything from one to five bushels of wheat. — Your.*, etc.. Per nra AFSTRALTAN SACK MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Sydney, ' March 22, ISOS. DUNEDIN MARKETS. WHOLESALE PRODUCE REPORTS Mr J. Fleinin?. Princes street south, reports under date the 4th inst. :—: — Wheat; per biisnel. per ton Best milling 3/2- 3/1 Barley dust ... 75/') Medium tio 3/1 Oatmeal, in Co's 190/0 Fowls' ... 3/0 Oaten chaff M/— 7O/0 Milling oats 1/9 Ryegvass hay 55,0-G'O/O Feed oats 3/6—l/7 Straw 33/0 Malt barley 4/o— 4/3 Pearl barley . 260/0 Feed barley ... 2/fi Onions 10/0 cwt. Ca D e barley 3/3-3/6 per lb. Maize... 3/o—3/6 Rolled bacon ... 7£i per ton. Side bacon ... 7sa Flour, in 200's ... 200/0 , Smoked ham=i .. »! Flour, in 50's ... 215/0^ Cheese ... 4^d— 4Jd Pollard 100/0 (Jood salt butter, 7d to Bran 65/0 Sd. according to 1 quality Sound potatoes are at £5 to £6 per ton. according to quality. AVhrte potatoes in good demand, £5 10s to £6 per ton. KARM AND I>AIRV PiIODUCK. Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, George street, report paying for produce during the weekendins the 4th inst. as follows :— Bacon (roll). 8J p. lb Fiesb butter, 8d to Ham, 9d p. Ib 10 Id per lb Fresh eggs, 1/1 di 2 Salt butter ; not buying Fresh butter, good ordinary- (in lib and ilb prints), 6dto B'l perlb. Pigs (1301b to 1601b), 4d per lb