LINEN FLAX FIBRE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4558, 10 April 1942, Page 5

LINEN FLAX FIBRE

NEW ZEALAND PRODUCT COMMENDED BY EXPERTS ■ laiid le i>, re ; S i UltS ac hieved by New Zea- ■ fik “ ~h , e Production of linen flax ■ SDo r nV? ,Ch WaS undertaken re ■ lhe British c rgent re P resen tations bv M tae . British Government, are commend ■ ed m a report from the United King ■ dom received by the o f H Th St ? es a a d Commerce, Mr Sullivan I ing grow " ■sh C d Peiping to make good the I tine X?f hICI r . esu,ted from the cutfl d f s uPPhes from the Baltic ■ States, Russia and Belgium. I k *l5 re P° rt gives opinions expressed ■ M a nufacturors e ’ e AXcia^n, 6 " Great ■ «P ort . states “that the packing of Ih! ■ bales IS satisfactory and the grading ■ Both a d rS t 0 We ” and “refullv done ■ Both dew and water retted types an ■ ceipts of New Zealand flax have’kJ 6 ' K“!t d cre g di y t “ C ?h a ” d refl “" l“we ha!e shitn n d ” Said Mr Su »ivan. ■fibre and gT ° f |tons an f see a d S ■ed from Great Britain. Part o? this ■as seed for resowing, being of a nodiIgree type. Substantial quantities' of ■seed have also been shipped to Aus |t£ha for the manufacture of Hnteed I ‘Six new factories have recentlv ■been established, making in all 17 |l ,nen flax factories operating in tho [South Island from Blenheim to Otam Los . the present time there are wnh7h P oyeeS . the Tories and the total wffi’h ° f - new factories ne total will be approximately 1000.”