FLAXMEN OFFENDED.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 32, 1 November 1907, Page 5

FLAXMEN OFFENDED.

. ,'the absent,chief /grader! >protest.to-the government.■'. Flaxmen aro becoming greviously' offended at tho \ prolonged absence of the Chief Grader. The Government has loaned him to St. Helena, a place, whither, a'greater man than ho,; named Bp'napaft<>,7was.!onco. also. ban-, ished,,, Ho :is there teaching fthij young idea's of tho little.island how .to 'grow tho stately flax. ■■*'The point of the trouble is 'that.he has left "no one,in .his,.place.'.*' /,;•'' ■■■"■' . The .'New. Zealand' Government has, no doubt, been warmly thought'of in England and Helena for, its generosity, but, tho pbor.iNoW; Zealand flaxmiller febls that he is paying'thepipor.. .- : : ,H*s,has no,chief expert,to keep the.grading standards uniform, throughout tho Dominion, and the resulting chaos, or fancied chaos, on to'p'.pf ,a .falling, is causing him to grieve seriously. .•■;.■■ ),;>. ■.••'■ V ■•"•' ■~... .The.trouble.was ventilated at:a Conference with'' .the.i Minister: at the last Manawatu Winter'Sbow, and the Minister raised a hope that the ponding Cpnferonoe.jof flax graders would: smooth;all difficulties -away.! Apparently the hope was , not realised,'for yesterday the Flaxmillers' Association ireopened tho question. .After •,some discussion,- they' resolved to pressi the Minister■ to appoint.a Deputy-Chief Grader for ! such time as Mr. Fulton isjabsent. ■■■■r'\\ti-:-:-. *:■-. ./' : •■- -■-.