STRIPPING FLAX
A NEW PROCESS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
The Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) announced today that a new decorticator had been developed for flax and was now in successful operation. This stripper was the outcome., of experiments by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research over the past few years and its successful application had been aided by a flax committee of the Bureau of Industry. The output of the machine was the same as the present stripper but no preliminary sorting of flax leaves was necessary, and a tail stripping device not only gave a larger yield of the fibre portion of the green leaf but preserved the finer end fibres and produced a product which was far superior from the point of view of openness and, moreover, caused considerable' saving in subsequent operations of paddockirig and scutching. Altogether, the use of the new machine involved an economy of approximately £3 a ton.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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163STRIPPING FLAX Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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