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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 10

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CALCUTTA TEA MARKET.

(Eke. Tel. Copyright-United Press Arm..; .Australian ana .N.Z. Uable Association CALCUTTA, November ?A. At the tea sales a large part offerings were of poorish quality. Competition was brisk for all descriptions. The market was firm, with an improving tendency. Average prices are: Commonest leaf 9 annas 6 pies to 10 annas 6 pies; commonest broken leaf, 9 annas 6 pies to 10 annas; ordinary common Pekoe Souchong, 10 annas to 10 annas 3 pies; even leaf Pekoe, 11 annas to 12 annas. For special lots prices ranged from 10 annas 6 pies to 15 annas, and tannings from 10 annas 3 pies to 11 annas 9 pies.

yivs> iu 4.x amicus *j BRAND STAINS IN WOOL. RESEARCH BY A CHEMIST. Recently the Agricultural Department asked the Mosgiel Woollen Co. and Ross and GJcmdiuhig to. report as to their experience in regard to wool for manufacture that was badly stained with brands. Those companies acted as requested. Their reports showed among other things that 4 pet' cent, of the wool that comes out of the scouring machines has to bo marked down in price in consequence of the staining, which hitherto it had been impassible to remove. These reports were read by a Dunedin industrial chemist. He thought it strange that so much wool should be wasted, seeing that there are so many good chemists in England and Germany. He interviewed! the managing director of the Dunedin mills, who at once displayed keen interest in tho matter, and took him to the mills, where a bundlo of the worst stained greasy wool was picked for him. Tho next day lie took the wool back, and; it was quite white. He was then given a parcel of scoured wool, and the same day he removed the brands from it also The manager of a leading wool agency was next seen, and being .shown the results of the test,, lie expressed the belief that the chemist had come upon a valuable discovery. The chemist is surprised at his own success, and has not yet mado up his mind what step to take next.

BAD OUTLOOK FOR AUSTRALIAN MEAT ENGLISH MARKET SLUMPS LONDON, Nov. IS. Mr. A. R. Hassan, the representative in England of the Australian Meat Council, told tho special representative of tho Sun that the present and the prospective positions of Australian meat m Britain had never been more serious. The new season's lamb was encountering a market that had slumped because of large supplies of cheap home-killed beef and heavy arrivals of Argentine chilled meat. He anticipated a poor demand for Australian, mutton and lamb uut;l January, with little prospect of improved values.