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A NEW DISCOVERY. News has just reached us from a thoroughly reliable source concerning new \ developments in the flax industry which could not have been more opportune, ! says a.. Manawatu paper. The market is low an& 'millers'are ..not optimistic; but we are assured that owing to quite a new discovery in the manufacture of , high-grade paper it is now possible to eliminate the brown stain, which hitherto has confined the use of the New Zealand flax to the making of wrapping paper and mill board. This discovery has opened 1 up the prospect of using the produce of about 9000 acreif of growing flax in the immediate future. It is now possible that paper of higher grades will come from this. source. Even for wrapping : paper, tow, stripper slips, and waste have been profitably used; but this will make it possible to substitute flax fibre for almost all other products now used for paper-making.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 5
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