SEEDING LINEN FLAX
BLENHEIM INVENTION PROVED SATISFACTORY IN TRIALS [United Press Association] BLENHEIM, 27th July. “Close investigations and trials have proved the linen flax de-seeding 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 was a superior machine to those which had been in use in Europe, he said. The New Zealand Government intended to have approximately 30 machines manufactured immediately to cater for de-seeding operations where the crop was grown throughout the Dominion. Mr Tennent paid a tribute to the pioneering work Mr Lucas and Mr L. C. Chaytor had done in connection with the linen flax industry. After an address by Mr Tennent, offers were made by farmers to grow a further 100 acres of flax, bringing 800 acres in sight of 1000 allocated Marlborough for the coming season.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 28 June 1940, Page 4
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