Successful Tests
LINSEED OIL FACTORY Trials were conducted recently of tho running of the principal machinery at the newly-erected linseed oil factory in Dunedin, the official opening of which will take place in about six weeks’ time. Tho factory is the first of its kind in New Zealand and has been erected by the Fletcher Construction Company on behalf of Dominion Industries, Ltd. Its immediate object is to supply sufficient linseed oil to meet the essential requirements of the Dominion. The raw material will be linen flax seed, a great amount of which in the past has been considered of little practical value in New Zealand. Byproducts -after the oil has been extracted will be used as dairy and pig food. The present storage capacity in the factory is 2000 tons of seed, of which a large proportion has already come to hand. The factory is modern and controlled almost entirely by electrical installations, and it also contains a laboratory with a chemist already in attendance. To-day’s tests can be considered highly successful.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 56, 8 March 1943, Page 3
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173Successful Tests Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 56, 8 March 1943, Page 3
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