MARLBOROUGH NOTES.
THE FLAX INDUSTRY,
(itY TKLEGKAX'II. — PKESS ASSOCUTION,)
Blenheim, this day,
Titkre is great activity in the flax industry in this district, To-day, Mr Chaytor, aeheop farmer, starts a mill to employ 20 hands. Mr Pollars, lato manager of tho Brick Hill and Tophouso Station, will shortly start a mill on tho north bank of tho VVairau River D. H. Pattio lately started a mill at Brick Hill. All tho old mills are working night and day ; whero water fails steam power in brought into requisition. In pome cases the raw material is carted fifteen and twenty miloa to tho mill.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 101, 30 April 1888, Page 8
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