FLAX.
The following is an extract from a letter by the house which has provided the information about the Cfydeside's oil, in to-days paper. The flax also went by the same vessel : —
" I have received a report from one of the largest Scotch manufacturers of Linen, to whom I sent a sample of the New- Zealand Flax.
" There is a great strength in the fibre, but so extremely harsh as to render it unfit for manufacturing purposes, it ought to undergo the steeping process, ani then the scutching to decorticate it. " This should be done in the country, and instructions given by Boors sent from Holland, who best understand the mode of preparing flax for our purposes, and who will soon discover if its nature encourage our import.
" Suppose you send 5 cwt. over to Holland to be dressed by these connisseurs, and have it back with every particular of loss in weight, &c* then you will see exactly to what a state of fineness it can be brought, as the process is not understood in this country." It should be observed that the sample of New Zealand Flax upon which this opinion is pronounced, was not a fair sample of that which has been sent home in different ships this year. It was put loose into tha hold af the Clydeside, and appears to have arrived wet.
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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume IV, Issue 335, 23 March 1844, Page 2
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