Woolpack Factory to Start in Four Months
GOOD NEWS FOE FLAX INDUSTEY. WELLINGTON, Last Night. New Zealand Woolpacks and Textiles, Ltd. to-day accepted a tender for the erection of a 36-loom mill for spinning flax fibre into textile for woolpacks. The work is to commence to-morrow. The company has also accepted a tender of a Leeds (England) firm for the supply of machinery to be delivered in time for the completion of the building 16 weeks hence. The total cost involved is £35,000j The company has secured seven acres of land on the railway line at Foxton and the buildings will have 51,000 square feet of space. If the project is successful, mills will be started at Tauranga and in Southland.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 July 1933, Page 8
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