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STRIPPING OF FLAX NEW MACHINE DEVISED (Pra Unitw> Prbss Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 23. The Minister of Industries and Commerce (Mr D. G. Sullivan) announced to-day that a new decorticator had been developed for flax, and was now in successful operation. This stripper was the outcome of experiments by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research over the past few years, and its successful application had been aided by the Flax Committee of the Bureau of Industry. The output of the machine was the same as the present stripper, but no preliminary sorting of the flax leaves was necessary, and the tail stripping device not only gave a large yield of the fibre portion of the green leaf, but preserved the finer end fibre and produced a product which was far superior, from the openness point of view, and, moreover, caused a considerable saving in the subsequent operations of paddocking and scutching. Altogether, the use of the new machine involved an economy of approximately £3 a ton.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 8
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