Disease Immune Flax.
BREEDING A NEW VARIETY
(Per Press Association.) Palmerston North, Jan. 28
The committee appointed yesterday from the Science: Congress and flaxmillers to eonsider the question of disease in flax met subsequently. Various recommendations were made, including the erection‘'of a small flax experimental station to be placed in charge of a skilled plant propagator, to ascertain if races of phormium exist which are resistant or immune to yellow leaf disease, the minimum salary of the chief investigator to he £SOO per annum, with a guarantee of employment for five years, a levy of 2/ per ton on flax to be collected through the Grading Department, the experimental station to he under the direction of a committee of the FlaxmiTlers’ Association.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 January 1921, Page 3
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