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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20361, 19 March 1928, Page 11

For 50 years past Western Canadian farmers have been burning their flaxstraw as waste. A method has now been devised for converting it into insulating boards, and what promises to be profitble industry is being developed. Most Canadian houses embody in ther construction insulating boards, which exclude the heat in summer and the cold in winter. A company has been formed at Selkirk to purchase flax straw from local farmers, and the factory, already in operation, is with its products displacing imports from Eastern Canada and the United States. Mrs Zammitt, of Llanelly, Carmarthen (Wales), will help in the demolition of the chimney stack at the Llanelly Copper Works, believed to be the second highest stack in Great Britain. The works are surrounded by houses and other buildings ,and the stack cannot, be felled. It will therefore, be demolished brick by brick. Mrs Zamraitt’s husband has been given the contract for the work. Mrs Zammitt says it is her pet ambition to tackle this giant. . . The City Corporation provides the Mansion House with £IO,OOO a year to maintain it for London’s Lord Mayor,