LETTER FROM THE AGENT-GENERAL, FORWARDING TWO SPECIMENS OF TOWELLING MANUFACTURED FROM PURE NEW ZEALAND PHORMIUM.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1872 Session I, G-44

G—No. 44.

LETTER FROM THE AGENT-GENERAL, FORWARDING TWO SPECIMENS OF TOWELLING MANUFACTURED FROM PURE NEW ZEALAND PHORMIUM.

PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BY COMMAND, OE HIS EXCELLENCY.

WELLINGTON.

1872.

G.—No. 44

LETTER EROM THE AGENT-GENERAL.

The A gent-General to the Hon. the Colonial Secretarx. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W., Sir,— 26th June, 1872. I have the honor to forward, by sample post, two specimens of towelling —one bleached, the other unbleached —manufactured out of pure New Zealand Phormium. I lose no time in forwarding these to the Colony, because they afford the best possible evidence of the adaptability of this fibre to textile fabrics. I beg at the same time to inform you that I am getting a tablecloth manufactured from the same bale of fibre. lam assured that in quality and texture it will equal the finest _ damask; and I can only regret that, owing to the strikes in the Irish mills, I am not in a position to forward it at once. I have, &c, I. E. Featherston, The Hon. Mr. Gisborne, Colonial Secretary. Agent-General.