THE FLAX INDUSTRY.
Press Association. WELLINGTON, yesterday. With reference to a telegram from the Thames complaining of the exportation •of flax-roots to the New jj- Hebrides and elsewhere, the Minister t [ for Lands informed the Post that the ( j statement that the fields were being r depleted is a wild rumor. A few I roots might' bo exported, but that j? could not bo prevented. Far greater Q harm was done to the flax fields by 3 careless owners allowing cattle to , stray over the ground than by exk porting roots. The Agricultural De- . nart'ment had been experimenting for , "omc time with a view to eneourag- . big the industry.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2100, 7 June 1907, Page 1
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109THE FLAX INDUSTRY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2100, 7 June 1907, Page 1
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