NEW STRIPPING DEVICE
FLAX INDUSTRY SAVING OF CM A TON (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. 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 that of the present stripper, but no preliminary sorting of Max leaves' was necessary and the tail stripping device not only gave a larger yield of the fibre portion of the green leaf, but preserved the finer end fibres and produced a product which was far superior from an 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 ol approximately £3 a ton.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 11
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171NEW STRIPPING DEVICE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 11
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