FLAX INDUSTRY.
USE OF (sANDHILL COUNTRY.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
PUKEKOHE, Friday,
The latest evidence of the revival of the flaxmilling industry is the establishment of a mill at Kohekohe, on the west coast, about 10 miles from Waiuku. Here there are thousands of tons of flax growing in sand country on the terraces that fall away to the coast. Little or no swamp is to be found in the vicinity, but the land produces good flax. This has led Mr. E. T. Frost, of Tuakau, one of the partners in the new mill, who has had years of experience in the flax-milling industry, to conclude that there is probably nothing better than sandhill country for growing flax, and that such territory could be turned t.o very profitable use by being planted in flax. It is stated that the present value of the tow, or scntchings, in addition to that of the fibre is helping very materially in making flax-railling a payable proposition.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19163, 31 October 1925, Page 17
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