Important Boom for N.Z Flax Mllers

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 46, 5 October 1889, Page 3

Important Boom for N.Z Flax Mllers

fPer s.s. Maoapouri at the Bluff"] Melboukne, September 24. The special correspondent of the Argus at the Paris Exhibition says j that in the New Zealand Court inquiries from merchants are numerous bearing specially on kauri gum, which it appears is very largely used in Paris for varnish purposes. So far it has been brought through London houses, the average price boing 60s per cwt. It appears, however, that the same quality can be obtained in Ne n Zealand at' 35s per cwt, and tho determiuation of French purchasers, .as expressed by them, is to import it direct from the colouy iv future. New .Zealand flax is also being asked Two important spinners from the United States saw Mr Malfroy, Acting Commissioner, and after ex pressing great admiration for the specimens exhibited, said —" We would be glad to buy any quantity of New Zealand flax aud import it direct if the shippers would guarantee that it would reach us in. the same co idi i in as the specimens you are showing here. But when ever we have im-ported-flax from New Zealand it has reached us in an absolutely worthless condition, as it has fermented en roitte." Mr Malfroy attributes this t > the careless way iv which the colonial shippers pack the flax,