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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4986, 11 June 1926, Page 3

Flax Cultivation Shares. ooo AN INVESTMENT YOU SHOULD NOT MISS. When considering an investment for 1925 was only 15,500 tons. Yet make sure it is “ The Ha,uraki Flax this is what the general manager of Growers and Hemp Producers’ Co. the International Harvester Company (Ltd.) ” (remember the name). This of America said to a New Zealand company has a hominal capital of merchant: “ You show us that you £lOO,OOO. have 50,000 tons per annum tot offer This Company is formed for the us, and we shall then be prepared first time in the history of New Zea- to put up special machinery and plant land to cultivate the native flax plant, for dealing with it and specialise in which is the most prolific fibre plant it.” in the world. Cultivation, selection New Zealand’s export balance is of seeds from plants with high fibre much behind that of our imports, content, and cutting by the. new side This is detrimental for the country, leaf method every year instead, of Hemp fibre is an exportable product, every three years as of old, ,and fi with and its increased production will help scientific, up-to-date treatment of the to lessen that dangerous breach that plant, means the profit that can be now exists between our exports and made per acre is quite 300 per cent. imports. over the old system of cutting and The trouble is, New Zealand does milling wild native grown flax. not produce enough fibre for big The area to be immediately culti- manufacturers to depend upon us for vated a.ud planted by the company is constant supplies. Much of the fibre approximately 2000 acres. Such area, exported is also. not up to a first once under cultivation, and growing class standard. Such a, company a,s flax, will increase at maturity (pro- this, with capital behind it, will engressively up to 10 years) by at least »age experts and chemists to make a five times the original cost and main- scientific study and research of the tain the. value indefinitely. The culti- flax industry. Much improvement is va.ted land itself, for dairying pur- possible in the manufacturing of flax poses alone, would be worth the full into finished fibre, more especially capital of tlie company. Therefore I' l the process of bleaching a.nd an investment now made will uh- finishing. Such improvements are aldoubtedly be more than protected and ready almost assured, aud finality in secured over its full amount by the this lespe.ct will mean the elimina-ever-inercasing value of the culti- tion of drying paddocks, and a great vated land, and your shares likewise saving o'f labour with a, consequently increase in value in proportion. higher profit per ton. There is a full valued asset in the It is quite within the range of posfreehold of the land. sibilities that before this company There is a certain preliminary per- I s actually milling its flax a, reliable iod of waiting for a return, but the commercial process will have been profits should show a minimum aver- perfected, whereby the fibre will be age net profit of 20 per cent, per milled in such a manner as to place, year for the first Bor 10 years, and R in to the textile industry. Its thereafter anything over 50' per cent. value there would be quite £lOO per per year. ton ’ The investment is not a bond issue; Cultivation and scientific research it is a sha,re issue, in which the aild experiment promises a,U this and shareholder owns the freehold of the more. land and business, and receives all What better, sounder, safer, and the. profit there is to be obtained. more profitable investment is there The management will be in the pei'r offering to-day ? Why be content sonal hands of Mr Geo. Craw, well- 4% per cent, a.nd 5% per cent, known throughout New Zealand as a On your money on fixed deposit? Inflaxmiller of undoubted knowledge of, ' esb * n shares in this Flax Growing find success in, the business, cover- Company, and provide, a handsome ing a "Wide experience during the past return for the rest of your life, with 20 years. The board of directors is security behind it. £lOO invested tocomposed of well-known successful day should be worth quite £5OO in business men, amongst whom are the ten years time. Applications for 25 managing directors of some, of the shares is the minimum subscription leading hemp exporting houses and accepted. manufacturing complies. shares will cost £3 2s 6d deposit. In a nutshell, the investment means o 0 shares will cost £6 'ss deposit, this : The area to be immediately 100 sha,res will cost £l2 10s deposit, cultivated is 2000 acres (approxi- \ s 6d P er shar * allotment and mate.ly). Capital Off the company is Cne balance at the rate of Is per 100,600, therefore each 2000 acres shr.re per month thereafter until cultivated, growing flax, with mills, paid 10r ’ working capital, a.nd reserve, will re- , Fm this application form in and present not more, than £5O per acre. post at ollce : A production of only one ton of TO Directors, fibre per acre per year at a profit of Hauraki Flax Growers and Hemp £5 per ton would show: —2000 acres Producers, Dtd., at £5, equal to £lo,ooo—lo' per cent. C/o H. A. Robinson, on full capital. Therefore this com- Box 19, Paeroa. pany has only to produce one ton of Sirs, — fibre per acre per yea,r at £5 per ton Kindly post me, without liability profit for shares to maintain their 011 my pt(rt, a Prospectus of the Haufull value off 20s in tlie £ and show 10 raki Flax Growers and Hemp Proper cent. ducers, Ltd. The average price for the last six Na inie years (including slump period) for ‘‘low fair” plus 12% per cent, for Address tow represents £33 8s 6d per ton. The cost of production' plus all other To Directors, charges, including grading and f.0.b., Hauraki Flax Growers and Hemp would not be more than £2O per ton Producers, Ltd., to this company. This would show 36 National Bank Buildings, a profit of £l3 8s 6d per ton. It is Fort St., Auckland, expected that at maturity at least three tons off fibre per a.cre will be Herewith please find enclosed produced. Three tons off fibre .at, say £lO (not beill S deposit of 2/6 per share 0n.... £l3 8s 6d) pe.r ton, would be £3O per shares in the. Hauraki Flax Growers acre net profit. Two thousand acres and Hemp Producers, Ltd., and I at £3O is equal to £60,000, or 60 per agree to pay Is 6d per share upon cent, net profit on £lOO,OOO capital, allotment, and Is per share per month Can this be done ? when called upon until the shares Dr. Goulding, chief expert of tlie are paid for in full. Imperial Institute, advised the Government that cultivated New Zealand Name in Full flax is capable of a return of from five to seven tons of fibre per acre. Occupation Yet only one ton production of fibre .and only £5 profit per ton will, return Address 10 per cent, net profit! Is there a,ny- Prospectus is .available from F. J. thing better, sounder,, or safer tha.t V. Wilson, 36 National Bank Buildwill show such a return on money ings, Fort Street, Auckland, or ! from invested with such security behind the local Bank of New Zealand, or it ? from the local agent, Mr H. A. RobinNew Zealand’s total export off fibre son, Box 19, Paeroa.

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