FLAX.
Several white men have employed themselves in Evans' Bay, trying what they could earn weekly at Flax dressing. The result has already ' proved that they can obtain fifteen shillings per week, at fifteen pounds per ton ; and they expect henceforward, at the same price for the Flax, to earn at the rate of twenty shillings per week. The Flax they hav,e dressed, has, we have been assured been declared to he fully equal to the best samples dressed, io a similar extent, by the natives.
We believe it is not generally known, that those men who are dressing Flax with a shell, in the immediate neighbourhood of the Town, are, by there own account, now enabled to work 80lbs each per week. This is surely worthy ...Q^jthe,, attention of, all who may not have full ; . work at other pursuits.
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume IV, Issue 315, 13 January 1844, Page 2
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