CHEAPER HEMP PRODUCTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 745, 18 February 1910, Page 10

CHEAPER HEMP PRODUCTION.

NEW MACHINE • With the grest increase in the world's production of fibre,., irhjeh followed on v'vViv the priCKi* of -three and 'four years ago, the chief hope of Now Zealand homp • -. . . millers novr, seems to lie: in the discovery methods, of.. prodiib-' • i "°?V •There is .-little'.prospect, of. any, 5 gr • • recoveryin prices, arid at ' the is;: ; : moment the.inarket weak; P "fi - ' jwi th ->eryV littleclemahd' Wguarter.' .'During' thMast-fort.' -night, prices have, in ;fact, shown a-fall, '.."iSv *IL? . a V? n > J and:yesterday's . values were i■:£&;■, 10s.'for good:fair;;and £>1 10s.' : for' fair ; Several Trashing, machines We been ; ;;espe^ented;OTtli/durinB I ;the,::last7year: 'results/';and'.it>:is: •'^.■: : ;'B;™'®r e sting - to; learnj- that, a';new..washeri : ' vMlll'at^oxton^th.very- satiswcroiy;.' rwults/.f-The .'-machine'" is the in-', of: the V ;c;;, r > Wai^to; ; and is - stated ; to. tftolisb: the;us<r v; : : ,->he the -two wasters/ • 1 the,; laboury of ■: three; > men.. > ' 'claimed.that .fiax washed' v'v. •r/P^cess > be brotJght'.in from the padf ™ - f R? r • da 7s' : *5 J' against nine ;to >teiuunder ; the" old/..process;Killers''axe ; /^the. inrentioti "K-Tvitii Kv.'-!v.» : of;them. are con- 1 'Wi v: v V :v" 1 be/a; great •sn co&ss. >.V : - -J^P^PP 3 monthly l -i hemp-grading it; : .that the : last ~;mw;cnnavoidably : delayed; - find that too detailed -figures have' been ayailableVpromptly 'in past : months: