Nothing Came Of Silkworms
Starch from potatoes or wheat, paper from New Zealand flax and silk from silkworms were some of the ideas for new industries put forward in the early days of Canterbury. A Mr Federli so impressed the Native Industries’ Association, forerunner of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association, with his views on the growth of the silkworm that it asked the Government to import mulberry trees. Nothing came of the idea for Canterbury to become the centre of a silk industry for it was found that the warm north-west winds were unfavourable to both the mulberry trees and the silkworm.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 26 (Supplement)
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