DOMINION HEMP MILLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 223, 20 September 1929, Page 4

DOMINION HEMP MILLS.

SITE NEAR DUNE DIN. COMPANY PROSPECTUS FILED. if (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Continual discontent has been prevalent among flax growers of the Dominion for the past few years. They have approached the Government for subsidies, and many growers have been reduced almost to financial ruin. However, the announcement that the Dominion hemp mills are to be erected at Outram, near Dunedin, should be hailed with a great deal of optimism as to their future prosperity. The mills will absorb all their crops in manufacture of sacking, hessians, bags, sacks, and wool packs, engineers' wiping waste, oakum, and padding ipaterials. The new company will be known as the Dominion Hemp Mills, Ltd., and its prospectus has been filed with the registrar of companies in Dunedin. The company will have capital of £100,000 in £1 shares. Exhaustive research extending over a period of years was conducted by Mr. Robert D. Coghill, technical chemist, of Dunedin, into the manufacture of the materials mentioned; now his efforts have reached a stage when manufacture can commence. . Four acres of land, right in the centre of Outram, have been chosen for the site of the works, which will be electrically At present considerable quantities of flax are growing adjacent to Outram, and it is understood that a start has been made by certain enterprising farmers to cultivate .flax on Taieri. Quite a quantity of raw material will come from the south of Dunedin, where, in flaxgrowing areas thousands of tons of leaf are produced annually. > . The venture will give employment tor several hundred people.