FLAXMILLERS' ASSOCIATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 722, 22 January 1910, Page 10

FLAXMILLERS' ASSOCIATION.

::^/"i ; :\MMGHTS.vONj;i[EIiD?v /.":>;'/ ,;•,. it &meeting: of the New (Zealand FlaxAssociation,* Thursday afternoon..thens ■'■ wefo present Messrs. ; :R. P. Bell-(president),; L. Seifert, .H,--Greigg, Joe. Tennant,; A.-: A. Brown,; E.' L. Broad, 'J. Wiggins," and M. , ;Cohen.:';■•• i.The principal'business before the'meeting -was'in connection-with' the 'proposal of the. sjiippint Companies! to'raise 'the ■rates: of; freight; on', hemp: between ; NewZealand anoV Australia.* :After '.discussion the following ■■, resolution. ■ was ■! carried :— "That this give, its wholehearted'support to anTi'action .taken' by the /Wellington : . and. other; merchants' .■: to charter.-bpats. and, to prevent the shipping . compahies' \ from" raising" freights between' :New;Zealarijl;?andVAtistralia.' r -1

■■'■"A ■'• dejintation^was appointed;to;wait on rthe. Minister' ■ for;: Agriculture in'.'' conncc- , tioh' with .the appointment' of ■' a .head grader, ..to discuss-and.deal "with' matters m. connection ;.with -the .homp l industrygenerally. •. The 'depu'tatichi will'■' also' wait on; the Minister. for ■ Railways. in: regard to the ; danger, of. sparks''from raiiwny engines 'flring_ flas'swamps, ■:.&. much, damngo; from- which 1 has. been '.sustained/ alpngj the Manawatu. railway; line. '■■. . ■~' '■:'.;.'.. ;,:.The'.association .will'.also^^^;advobate■: ; a' further division of grade?,': dividing' the present; grades into: two—A'arid B—and giving each'.a margin: ;of five points,. , inatead of the present margin of ten points.