PROCESSING OF LINEN FLAX
ACCUMULATION OF STRAW AT FACTORIES (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, June 11. South Island linen flax factories have enough straw in stock to keep them in operation until the end of 1955 or the beginning of 1956. This information was contained in a letter sent to Federated Farmers in Timaru by • the Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr J. T. Watts). A report printed in Wednesday’s issue of “The Press’’ erroneously quoted these years as 7954 and 1955.. This destroyed the meaning of Mr Watts’s letter, which was based on the fact that, whatever the future of the linen flax industry, a halt would have to be called this year to the sowing of more crops until the factories caught up with the processing of the straw.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27374, 12 June 1954, Page 8
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