WAITAKERE.-THE FLAX AND GUM INDUSTRY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3858, 3 January 1870, Page 4

WAITAKERE.-THE FLAX AND GUM INDUSTRY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

The operations in connection with the Waitakere flax mill are progressing rapidly, three or four paiva of sawyers being engaged in cutting timber for the sheds, &c., and another party hard at work preparing the ground necessary for drying purposes. The pro prietoi*3 of the concern will have the great advantage of procuring their timber at a price but little above the actual cost of cutw ting, kauri abounding in close proximity to Niie site of the mill. The number of machines <\be worked is stated to be, twenty. The jafKemployed in cutting flak*#Hendersan's ™^' e been struck off woife^ln's week, in ™ffV oe of the firm htivtng received a Zr°t Wt amount than ' they could who ai5L Tke result *» that settlers ™w % ™ \ eks sinoe » at the urgent repo B e of erecting a flax mff SL tor -5 pu ?" |ell chosen, J there ST^J^^ J the raw material close at ha^S^I roadtotheWaitemata. Four^^efare at work at Waikoukou, so we shXJon be surrounded with mills, which toILsSSJ? conduce to the prosperity of the districWA \ dispel the gloom which has of late seffi upon it. Gum-digging is still carried on her^ though not to mich an extent as formerly/ 1 ln^-price obtamed- at Lamb's mill is 40s per ?S vS? 6 111 is easily-disposed of at . dds^at the roadside. , ,. ,