FLAX DE-SEEDING MACHINE
TRIALS PROVE COMPLETELY SATISFACTORY
(United Press Association)
BLENHEIM, June 27.
Close investigations of the trials proved that the linen flax de-seeding machine patented by Mr C. J. Lucas, of Blenheim, a farmer, was 100 per cent, satisfactory, stated Mr R. B. Tennent, Director of Primary Production. Actually, it was a superior machine to those which had been in use in Europe. He said the New Zealand Government intended to have approximately 50 machines manufactured immediately to cater for de-seeding operations where crops were grown throughout the Dominion.
Mr Tennent paid a tribute to the pioneering work that Mr Lucas and Mr L. C. Chaytor had done in the linen flax industry. Following an address by Mr Tennent offers were made by farmers to grow another 100 acres of flax, bringing 800 acres in sight out of the total of the 1000 acres allocated to Marlborough in the coming season.
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Southland Times, Issue 24164, 28 June 1940, Page 3
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