FLAX AT NANGAITI

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3151, 3 August 1942, Page 5

FLAX AT NANGAITI

(To The Editor) Sir, —May I claim some space in your columns, to reply to an article in your issue of Wednesday, July 29, entitled “Fifty Tons a Week.” Let me say as a flaxmiller of over twenty years’ experience both at Irish linen and New Zealand hemp that from five to eight tons of fibre per week, rather than 50. .to SO tons per week as stated in your paper would be a very good output, and would entail a six-day week. A further statement that the 50 tons of fibre per week means the cutting and transport to the mill of 150 tons of green leaf is surely wrongly estimated. Knowing the quality of fibre which the district in question grows, let me say right now that it takes from 84 to 94 tons. of green leaf to produce one ton of fibre (that is from 425 to 475 tons of to produce the 50 tone of fibre in excess of th© figures given in your paper. If I thought your readers; were in- . terested perhaps I could go into further details. —I am, etc., H. GALLAGHER Millei’ Avenue, Paeroa, 31/7/431 \ , /•;