Success of Flax Deseeding Invention
Per Press Association. BLENHEIM, June 27. Close investigations and trials have proved that the linen flax deseeding machine patented by Mr. C. J. Lucas, a Blenheim farmer, to be 100 per cent, satisfactory, stated Mr. R. B. Tennent, Director of Primary Production. Actually it is a superior machine to those which have been in use in Europe, he said. The New Zealand Government intended to have approximately fifty machines manufactured immediately to cater for deseeding operations where tho crop is grown throughout the Dominion. Mr. Tennent paid tribute to the pioneering work Messrs. Lucas and 1.. C. Chaytor had dono in connection with tho linen flax industry. Following an address by Mr. Tennent, offers were made by farmers to grow a further 100 acres of flax, bringing SOO acres in sight out of the total of 1000 allocated to Marlborough.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 152, 28 June 1940, Page 6
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