N.Z. LINEN FLAX CROP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 5 August 1941, Page 4

N.Z. LINEN FLAX CROP

, ARRANGEMENTS FOR SALE TO BRITAIN 4 | SEED ALSO BEING EXPORTED Wellington, This Day 3 ! Advice of arrangements enteret t ! into between the United Kingdon 1 | Government and the New Zealanc B l Government for the purchase of lines • ilax by Britain has been received Iron i the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser. : The Minister of Supply, Mr Sulli :l can, said last night that the Unite< • Kingdom would buy the linen fla: _ > crop from 25.000 acres during the wa and one year afterward. The arrange j i ment covered the purchase of libr -I ' produced from the acreage sown, o for which cultivation had been put i hand before the war ended. Mr Sullivan said that the purchas . I will be at already agreed prices fo ' ' the seasons 1941-42 and 1942-43, an L | thereafter at prices to be mutuall; e (agreed upon. To deal with the stra\ s from the increased acreage it had be e : come necessary to erect an addition, cl ix j- actol . jes * n , "Not only arc we assisting Britai ~ !in the supply of fibre,” said Mr Sul j livan. “We have supplied pedigre 0 | seed to Britain, to India, Egypt an ,J ! Australia. It. is less than 12 month P | since we undertook the growing n : linen flax for the British Governmcn d Remarkable progress has been mad -• in the few months, and it is of ini s * J rnense satisfaction to me and to a >t associated with this industry that w y ! have been able to supply this see; id | The value shipped up to the preset ei j s over £35,000, which exceeds th h 'value of the original seed roecivj | from the British Government.'’