Cabled news that the Admiralty hopes to make a cordage use of New Zealand flax in the Navy causes "Tangiwai" to remark in the "New Zealand Railways Magazine": "But really it is a belated discovery, this Navy trial of our flax. More than a century ago, when muka—tho dressed article—was New Zealand's principal export, British Navy tests revealed the unexcelled quality of the fibre for ships' rigging and for all rope and cordage purposes. Not only that, but canvas was made from our flax. One of the Navy ships was supplied at Sydney with a large sail manufactured from flax, and it filled all the requirements of canvas, strong aud weather-worthy.''
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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