LINEN FLAX
POSSIBILITIES ON PLAINS INVESTIGATION URGED REQUEST BY MR SUTHERLAND A plea to the Government to assist the flax-g-rowing industry, with special reference to the Hauraki Plains, was made by Mr A. S. Sutheland, M.'P. for Hauraki, when speaking on the Estimates in the House of Representatives recently. Mr Sutherland said he had suggested the previous year that the department go into the matter of growing linen-flax in experimental plots on its farms in the South Auckland district.
He had been informed by one constituent that linen-flax had- been grown successfully in that area 40 : years ago, but had been discontinued because the price then was not very remunerative.
With the better .price obtainable today and the better facilities that were available, the flax might be grown successfully in that area. It would give much satisfaction if. the department tried' out a few plots there. Quite a lot of linen-flax could be grown successfully on the Hauraki Plains, even without fertiliser.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HPGAZ19430823.2.34
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32303, 23 August 1943, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162LINEN FLAX Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32303, 23 August 1943, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hauraki Plains Gazette. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in