THE FLAX INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 4

THE FLAX INDUSTRY.

MILLS PREPARING TO REOPEN. In conversation'.'with an informant wli takes a keen interest in tho jlaxmilling 11 dustry, n representative of. I'he Dominio was told; that : tho' millers- around Fo: Palraerstori North, and Shannon a] at prcselit busily engaged making prepari tions to open their mills again. .. iwo-.t three mills havo continued cutting ngi through, tho'winter,' hut, theSo are exceptioi ' amongst the many. It is stated that t\y> or perhaps three, mills will reopen with: tho 'next fortnight, and each, null'-will a sorb somo 22 or 23 of tho unomployecl. bov ral other mills will start again during be tember; ■ and' a -large. new milrnear Lev will bo opened in October. Life ha:) wm infused into the industry, owing to the fa th« the price of hemp has improved near £2 por'ton • since ' it touched bottom- sor months agoi and thero are several buyers tho market, at -tho advanced figure.; Necessity as "tho mother of inventioi is a hackneyed, old saying, but this necessit induced by the low prices, has mado/mai of tho milloTntcira turn their attention, 'improving their machinery. • Several of t • mills havo hud'better plant put in for t I purpose of catching flax after it pass ; through'the stripper, hanging it and was i ine it Two or thrco millers are also c : gaged in trying to discover somo.improv i method of dealing with the present waste) scutching process, and, now that .attenti has been turned to. cheaper methods ot p: » duction, tho■ cost of with royalties has been £lo to ill J 5 ton, will, it is hoped; bo material y lessen ' during the present season. If the cum • prices': of flax aro maintained,-it ns an 5 eipated that' every mill botweon Manaki r Foxton, and Palmerston North will be '■ full swing-by tho end of September. s There was a young man of weak chest, /Who asked for a cure of the best; LUNG BALSAM ho took, His cough.it off shook, . And now nis warm thanks doth attest, e Barraolough'e Acacian Lung Balsam, [a Price, lfl. fid. and.2a. Gd,