USES FOR FLAX
PAPER AND SACKING
(Special to "The Evening. Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day.
That paper can be made from Now Zealand flax has been proved by a local technical chemist, Mr. K. D, Coghill, who showed a specimen of his research work in this direction to a reporter. Tho specimen, a small piece of while paper, was produced from a good gradeof fibre milled near Balelutha, and, although, owing no doubt to inadequate appliances, the- sample is not perfect in every way, it reveals another avenue of use for flax that is worth investigating. The flax industry appears to be in a very precarious position just now, but Mr. Coghill stated that there was really no nocd for ono mill to be idle. His investigations had shown that by the use of comparatively "simple methods every ounce of fibre produced in New Zealand could bo converted locally into sacking and like products, which' were of equal value to imported goods, and which could be manufactured for the user at a cost no greater than in tho case of imports. Almost £1,000,000 left this country each year for sacking commodities. When it was properly developed, tho flax industry should be the most flourishing in the Dominion. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1931, Page 4
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206USES FOR FLAX Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 16, 20 January 1931, Page 4
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