NOVEL EMPIRE ROPE TEST.
EXPERIMENT WITH SISAL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, January 17. Tlie two oak chests that have been fastened to the end of Southend pier, more than a mile out at sea, are there, it is stated, for a scientific experiment that will probably bring trade worth £2,000,000 a year to the British Empire ! In the chests, perforated to let an the water at high tide, were hundreds of yards of sisal hemp and mauila hemp. For a year their strength and durability when exposed to sea water has been tested. Exports on the committee appointed by the Imperial Institute have found that the sisal rope (British) is as good as the manila rope, which comes froifi American dependencies, if indeed, it is not better.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20353, 9 March 1928, Page 4
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