FLAX FIBRE FOR USE AS COTTON.
NEW ZEALAND INVENTION. l’er Press Association. WELLINGTON. .June 23. The question whether New Zealand flax is capable of producing fibre with eotton-lik© spinning qualities has been many years in the minds of flaxmillers in this country. While it remains to be seen whether such fibre would stand up to the 6train imposed on cotton thread goods, some progress has been made in that an invention lias been iieiToeted for ; the production of fibre. Mrs Hodberg, of Wellington, is ibe inventor of a process whereby flax fibres produced by Ibe present methods of stripping and scutching are broken up into finer threads, varying according 1o quality of the leaf, from coarse cottons to the linest silk. The st a pie is longer than the American or Egyptian staple. The process is simple j I and if the finished product i>. found suitable for many purposes for which cotton is applied, one of the most im-
parlan i industric. n?av bo established. .he cost of raw co-tton is now so /high that the New Zealand flax pro- / duct should Ik.- able to compete mic- | eessfully by means of this cotton substitute in the supply of raw material for tiie textile manufacturing in cl us-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17572, 24 June 1925, Page 1
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