TRIAL OF NEW ZEALAND FLAX.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 4002, 20 June 1870, Page 3

TRIAL OF NEW ZEALAND FLAX.

A number of gentlemen met by appointment at Messrs Hay Brothers' mills, Invercargill, for the purpose of testing the relative strength of Manila and New Zealand flax rope. The Southland Neics furnishes the following particulars regarding the trial. Shears having been erected, the trial commenced by suspending a wooden platform therefrom with the rope under test, and loading the former with half-hundred-weightq :--A piece of N. Z. rope (common dressed) liin. in circumference was first subjected to the stiain. It broke when 12cwt. had been placed. A piece of KZ. rope of the same size, made from steamed fibre, broke with lOcwt. A lencjth of ManilaJ Ifin. rope was next tested, and broke wrch 14cwt. It may be remarked that this rope contained, in proportion to its size, several more strands than the F. Z. rope. A piece of N. Z. Hin. rope that had been in use three years was tested, and, to the surprise of all, sustained Bcwt. before breaking, A piece of new Manila of the same size broke at 7^o \vt.

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