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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue II, 19 November 1889, Page 3

i- u ; =. ... • < From inquiries by the Taranaki Heral^ the fla* mills in the district, it * > Isaxn.s i tbat between Avrakino in the north ' ''ana Opuhake in the .south there are 20 mills at work. Nine of the mills are situated between , the Stony and Oaonui * i vuvef3," a distance of about 20 miles, and . >th#se nine mills employ 258 Europeans and 200 Natives. The amount of dressed flax turned out at the nine mills is about 50 tons per week, and the output is expected to materially increase during the summer months. " We wpnder whether any of this leather is ever imported ? The shoe and Leather ''Reporter tells as that v st quantities of old i shoes are t ken to mills, where they are ' ground into fine dust. To this is added ' about 40 per cent of indiarubber, and the * wnole is then subjected to a pressure of < 6600 ov 10,000 pottnds per square foot. ."The substance is then coloured, and is sold , v, at prices tome 50 per cent below that of natuml loftth«r. It i« -manifestly a poor ' * flttbstltate, and it wholly wanting in fibre. ;