FLAX INDUSTRY.
Reference to investigations being carried out in regard to phormium tenax, waa made by the chairman at a recent meeting of tha Research Council. Breeding and selection work," ho said, " are continuing under Dr. Yeates, at Massey College, where several promising strains are meriting At the same time ' yellow-leaf' disease research is being actively pushed forward. This trouble—possibly being of the virus type —ia proving exceedingly difficult of solution. Chemical work is under way, and several methods of softening and bleaching fibre aro being actively subjected to investigation."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20601, 27 June 1930, Page 5
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