FLAX DE-SEEDING MACHINE
TRIALS PROVE aVOOEHFUIk (Br Telesrapb.—Press Auoclitlsi.) BLENHEIM, Thursday. Close investigations and trials proved the linen flax de-seeding machine patented by Mr. C. J. Lucas, a Blenheim farmer, to be entirely satisfactory, stated Mr. R- B. Tennent, Director of* Primary Production. Actually it was a superior machine to those which had been in use in Europe, he said. The New Zealand Government intended to have approximately 50 machines manufactured immediately to cater for de-seeding operations where the crop was grown throughout the Dominion.
Mr. Tennent paid tribute to the pioneering work done by Mr. Lucas and Mr. L. C. Chaytor in connection with the linen flax industry. Following an address by Mr. Tennent offers were made by farmers to grow a further 100 acres of flax, bringing 800 acres in eight, oat of a total of 1000 allocated to Marlborough for the coming season.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 152, 28 June 1940, Page 9
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