New Zealand Flax.
TO THE EDITOR
Sir, — I F.ometime3 see letters in the Witnes3 advocating a bonus for the succeseful manufacture of New Zealand flax. If the writers were to lake a trip .through the country they would sea that -wherever there is cultivation — and i 6 is to ba peen all ovjer the country — the plan!; baa disappeared, together with the native birds, and to offer a premium for its manufacture would be like offering a prize for a stuffed moa. The question is, Can it bs grown at a profit ? Until that is settled it is little use taxing the country to encourage its manufacture. How* ever desirable ib, may be to encourage native industry, in face of the war scare we cannot afford to waste public money on a chimera, Let us go in for what we can do, euch aa the cultivation of beet for sugar and the produc> tion of winter food for sfeock— a branch of rural industry much fctgleefced, especially in the North Island. There are many things we shall have to produce or go without. A great deal moyts might ba done in iinned meat and prs-ajrves.-—I am, &c, £Hen Murray/ Auckland. "j?, M. .
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Otago Witness, Issue 2309, 2 June 1898, Page 7
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202New Zealand Flax. Otago Witness, Issue 2309, 2 June 1898, Page 7
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