LINEN FLAX FACTORY
Workers’ Community Life Dominion Special Service.’ INVERCARGILL, August 11. The linen flax factory at Tapauui presents an example of community life unusual in New Zealand. There is a hostel for women employees, three staff houses, quarters for ten married workers, and 42 huts each designed to accommodate two men. A caterer is in charge of the cookhouse. There are about 80 employees on the staff. The manager, Mr. R. Knight, stated that there were 102 crops in the district, ami it was not expected that there would be much, difficulty in getting about 1500 acres for the coming season. Originally it was intended to produce a large proportion of each factory’s output in natural flax, but the British Government required c.hielly dew-retted or tank-retted flax, and therefore the natural flax fibre production was discontinued. The production will now be practically all tankretted fibre.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 270, 13 August 1942, Page 8
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