South Island To Grow Linen Flax
I Special to “Northern Advocate”] WELLINGTON, This Day.
Farmers in the South Island have now more than met the request of the Government to put aside 15.000 acres for growing linen flax, which is being undertaken at the request of the British Government.
The Director of Primary Production (Mr R. B. Tennent said the contracts had been forwarded to farmers for signature.
It is provided that the price to be paid to the farmer for straw from which the seed has been taken is £4 5/- a ton. The prices which will be paid for the seed are: For crops accepted, £25 a ton; for crops rejected, £35 a ton.
This appeared to be anomalous, Mr Tennent said, but where the crop was rejected the farmer had to harvest, thresh and dress the seed and deliver it into store at his own cost, while for the accepted crops the Government undertook to do the harvesting, threshing, seed-dressing and delivery.
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Northern Advocate, 5 July 1940, Page 7
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