HEMP INDUSTRY DORMANT
One flasmill in the extensive Manawatu district is at present at work "scutching up" preparatory Lo closing or going right ahead, whatever the market will dictate. Normally the flaxmilling industry should by now be well into its stride, but the times are abnormal, with the result that hundreds of flax hands who should be busy are idle, engaged in .other work or on relief work. An advance in the overseas markets for New Zealand hemp of £2 to £3 per ton might induce millers to resume, but this improvement is not at present visible. Otters from overseas are filtering through, but they are all below cost' of production, and in any case are few .'and spasmodic. The position appears to .be that the competition of other fibres with New Zealand phormium tena.x is too severe for this country to meet, especially as such fibres are largely the product of very low-priced coloured labour. The alterations in rates of exchange should in theory be of some benefit to the New Zealand hemp industry, but so far no practical results are visible.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 10
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183HEMP INDUSTRY DORMANT Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1931, Page 10
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