SEFTON FLAX WORKS.

Press, Volume XVI, Issue 2165, 26 March 1870, Page 2

SEFTON FLAX WORKS.

our Special Reporter J Arriving In Saltwater Creek bj tiwaftjjj noon coach we found that wfl. WoWJ«»»»» for our intended visit to tbe Soften fla «J the same evening, next morning,- we proceeded, to the «otfJ situated about three quarters of a »»*» Saltwater Creek. The country for Wtance around consists of ». Wld * lying swamp, on which a largo quantity ohw if growing.:: Tha Willis piti«Hjd.W **\ a c * a >! of this land, and on the bank of a jan-ig stream of water, fed by the swamps, the water of which '3 JS<®WV well adapted for washing purposes.; f The premises inclade, a ioog ?^ ta S ich V.D.L, palings,' 82 »' J. * 5 & VH_ the ; strippers iare working, msio . engine shVd, scutching department. a shed over the washing place, engine is of fourteen-borse power, drives six strippers and tiro ai^' m by strippers are ranged in a line. * n-antta* Mr Anderson, of Christchurch* sad WJ • is one of the Auckland machines. »£. ~ of fibre, or thereabouts, pasß from we week. . . t i ._ i*-1_ t_b fl The fibre is washed by -handasJ»»J^^ from the strippers. Thence *■ c**» oi drying ground. . .This ground CO-H* /

. n} fifteen acres in which, bleaching upon ST Brass and "drying on the wire lines or It were about thirty-fire tons of first(a looking « bre ' m, 9 gcutehing room contained a few more of fibre, as well as some tow, which meets io ?f £ c to upholsterers. The scutchers * of' & c " arm " 6orf > each wit ** v arms or spokes. From this Jfoftrtaseot the dressed flax is drajed to %( T9 general stores in Saltwater 5S Here it is packed and pressed by an fTdraulic press at the rate of twelve bales in a 5L thence it is shipped on board sailing •fr and conveyed to Lyttelton for "transhipi 0 the vessels for England. These bales weigh from sto 6 ewt. , ...■-■•- . -. The works are under the management of a Mtnvetent and trustworthy foreman. His charge includes thirty-two men and boys, all L\A The flax turned out since the mills t*rted is "from I°° *** 160 tons. Some flax SoXthiß mill fetched £48 16s in the English marks*, eaid *° be tJie n 'B ueßt P" ce y et obteiDgfrfogW re ora <^aterbury.; : f |