EXPORT OF FLAX.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 511, 23 September 1867, Page 1

EXPORT OF FLAX.

(Southern Cross, September 12.) We are glad to observe that the attention of merchants is being directed to the export of Auckland flax, owing to the efforts recently made amongst the working classes to augment its production. The parties uugmpivVcu uutacT tu6 SUSpICcS Ct - t n \ i t * - , • , , *■ uio sucieiies, nave ut?eu ur« gauised tor the working of this material, are already creating a supply of the best possible description in the market; and this has been absorbed for export in sample shipments to England, Melbourne, Sydney, and other markets. Twenty tons are exported to iVI elbourne to-day in the steamship Lord Ashley, and six tons to the same market in the brig Susan—representing, at the low estimate of £2O per ton, a sum of £520 The Alice Cameron, for Sydney, took 27 bales shipped by Mr G. W. Owen ; and the Ironside, which leaves to-day for England, takes 10 bales shipped by Messrs. Bucholz and Co., as a sample of the description of flax produced here. Ol the 20 tons alluded to above, Messrs. Combes and JJaldy export 15 tons, and ilr C. J. Stone five tons, to Melbourne; and .Mr Ralharry sends a shipment of six tons to the same market, via Newcastle, in the brig Susan, which sails this morning. Several tons are also to be forwarded to Sydney in the Moa, which sails tomorrow ; and there is every indication that a constant export of the material will be kept up as tlie supply increases. We will only add that the samples most admired, and calculated to realise the highest price in the markets to which they have been forwarded, are those produced without the aid of chemicals, and with no assistance ■ xeept that alforden bo a copious supply of water, b) - steaming, and the use of the most approved hackling machine.