FLAX GOODS.

Manawatu Herald, 5 November 1889, Page 3

FLAX GOODS.

The Colonial 'ecretary has received from the i^g-nt General, as exhibits for the Dunedin Exhibition, a parcel of articles manufactured by John Bolliday and Son, of London, with New Ze land flax. Small as it is in bulk the exhibit is of great interest ' and value in. this Oo ony, as demonstrating the uses to which flax can be put and its capabilit-es, when properly trei : ed, for competition wi h other fibre*. The most noteworthy f atticles in the collection are aeveraju pieces of floor covering Itttown. »s v Sanitary Napier m t •• ting," in- the manufacture of whiih Messri Hollidny and Son have attained considerab'e celebrity, 'his matting was laid down in the Health Exhibition at London four years ago, and according to the Furnituire Gazette, although enormous numbers of people must have passed over it, " when taken up it showed hardly uny ind'eatiou of wear." It 'is claimed for it also that, in additio .. io durability and warmth, it is fireproof and will not hold infection, tofiras can be judged by tbese 8 ecimens, flax is particularly suitable for the; m nufacture of this artio c, and the piec s of matting shown era handsome and of excellent texture. The other specimens are cords and ropes of various de acriptipns, from a three ply down to a finejtwine, and in each, case the article appears to be equal; to anything of the kiud^v-made.^^iu ; point of variety the coTlictidn' in not

• as good as thai to bo seen afc tl . Museum, but as an exhibition of tl class oi ! articles that can be juac with flax it is inter sting arid signif ; cfliit to this Colony.