THE FLAX INDUSTRY.
DtPEOVED TREATMENT SOUGHT. (By TdesraDh—Prcse Association.) Palmerston, May 20. A well-attended meeting of the flaxraillers was held here on Thursday to discuss matters brought up by Mr. Wm. Akers, who has just returned from a visit to Manila and Europe. In Loudon Mr. Akers had seen a Dr. Manmann, who is an inventor of a process for utilising by-products. This process Dr. Manmann was willing to give to New Zealand millers if it was made- worth his while. At Thursday's meeting it was pointed out that the gum and tho dye from fibre (both at present, doomed drawbacks in flaxdressing) wore most valuable. A strong deputation of millers was appointed to wait on the Minister, and ask that a bonus bo offered for inventors of machinery and other means of improving the treatment of flax and cheapening the cost of production. A substantial bonus is to be asked for, and it is to be suggested that any expenditure made by the Government will bo met from a tonnage tax on tho fibro exported.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 3
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176THE FLAX INDUSTRY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 821, 21 May 1910, Page 3
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