FLAX-DRYING AT WELLINGTON.
The hemp salved from the Turakina is being reconditioned at Miramar. It is now being dried on wires and in paddocks, and covers an area of about 1000 acres. Scutching and pressing machines aTe being erected, and twenty carpenters wero at work yesterday erecting a largo fibre shed to receive the reconditioned hemp, ■ whilo other buildings are •to be erected for tho scutching and baling. Tho buildings will liavo tho electric light installed so that the work of reconditioning iriay ; bo carried through as quickly 6s possible. ,It ..is intended to work night and day! Tho plant, and buildings will constitute practically a new mill, except for the fact that no green flax will be handled. This new industry, so closo to "Wellington, is a matter of some importance, for it will absorb a considerable amount of skilled and unskilled labour. While the works aro. going it is expected that about seventy hands will ■bo employed continuously, and the pity is that it is only a temporary job. " Mr. Scotclier, general manager for Sir. M. P. Bourke, who has the contract for reconditioning the hemp, arrived from Auckland a day or two ago to,take charge of the works.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 2
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