LINEN FLAX IN SOUTHLAND
Aβ a result of recent- meetings of farmers in the Qtautau and. Winto-n districts about 2000 acres have been promised for growing linen gax in tfae spring. This is onljr SGO acres short of the 2.500 needed before it will be poesrbte to establis-h processing plants at those centres, and after more meetings rt -is hoped that at least the total area required will have been promised. Offers to grow 104 acres were made at a meetittg at Centre Bush and 130 were promised at Orawia. Mr. J. W. Woodcock. of Dunedln. fields superintendent for Otajro and -Southland, and other officers of the Department of Agriculture addressed meetings throu?hout .Southland advocating the cultivation of the Sax.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 6
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