Renewed Hope For Flax Industry
[Per Press Association. Copyright .] WELLINGTON. This Day.
The possibilities of rehabilitation of the New Zealand flax industry, and even for the establishment of a secondary industry of vital importance to the Dominion, were suggested in a statement by Mr John Redshaw, of Bradford, before his departure from Wellington by the Awatea last night after a holiday visit.
.His statement amounted to a conviction that soft flax fibre could be carded and spun into a yarn suitable for the manufacture of textiles. Mr Redshaw has a lifetime experience of the woollen industry. He is well known throughout the world as designer of the endless tape condenser and wool-carding machine used in all countries where wool is woven and recognised as guaranteeing even and regular yarn. “I have had submitted to me by a group in New Zealand, samples of soft fibre prepared 'by a simple pro cess from New Zealand flax,” said Mr Redshaw. ‘‘These samples have the consistency of wool. “Judging from the samples, I would say there is an opening for New Zealand in the textile industry. If I had not, by experience, sensitive fingers to tell the difference, I would have thought the fibre was wool.”
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Northern Advocate, 1 March 1939, Page 12
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