THE FLAX INDUSTRY
The flax industry throughout Now Zealand is faced with a difficult position. After a period of extremely low prices, the advance during the past few months had stimulated the industry, and nearly all mills in the Dominion had set to work upon what promised to be good payable prices. '• The output had increased 33 1-3 per cent. Now millers are informed that there is very little tonnage to carry their flax away, and that they might have to close down their mills a time. 1 Although freights have increased from 80s. to 140s. per ton, yet the shipping companies cannot provide the ships, and there is, it is asserted, no alternative. The millers are meeting immediately to consider the position and decide upon some course of action.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2732, 29 March 1916, Page 6
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130THE FLAX INDUSTRY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2732, 29 March 1916, Page 6
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