LINEN FLAX DESEEDING
INVENTION OF MACHINE BY NEW ZEALANDER.
Flectric Telegraph—Press Association BLENHEIM, June 27.
Close investigations and trials have proved the linen flax deseeding machine patented by Mr C. J. Lucas, a Blenheim farmer, to be 100 per cent, satisfactory, stated Mr R. B. Tennent, Director of Primary Production. Actually it is a superior machine to those which have been in use in Europe, he said. The New Zealand Government intended to have approximately fifty machines manufactured immediately to cater for deseeding operations where the crop is grown throughout the Dominion.
Mr Tennent paid tribute to the pioneering work Messrs Lucas and L. C. Oh ay tor had done in connection with the linen flax industry. Following ii address by Mr Tennent, offers were made by farmers to grow a further 100 acres of flax, bringing 800 acres in sight out ot the total of 1000 allocated to Marlborough.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14473, 28 June 1940, Page 5
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