Potter's Process.
Mr Potter the patentee of s new process for dressing flax has writtaa & letter to Mr Wilson- in which he states : — I manufactured about 8 ewt of hemp by on© pl< the machines be/ore many' of the merchants and flax njillers of Aacklin^ajjd I ex« . posed a bale of 2£ cwt for four wcekt at the Chamber of Commerce. I had one » n <* aa^ * n °h ro P« saado of thiTremft:Q^« r . The bale I lent to Jj^ll&l bj tu 1 * ■• H « Cop.tig and it ar» ;ty d 9th April. 1 crvcfr6n^iiot^^o *&• London MlXBd « The main pdin^Mfioursa if 41k* *"' <«%, and ihi^gpfffs id have b." m weU dondaoC'^Hto a value 0/ £27 to £fcß Tpet THm : speaks Volumes for the position your well' dresaed flax holds in[ this ' market, in spite of the present' <!epi§&6W *nd romemberihg " ttiat 'goSa^manilla hemp ie only valued a* Ifcßsto £88 person.- lam >Hatfgjjjg trith m^ broker to hare the bfde jiUt 1 before some of our experts and Vmaßgfc hare something more to say about it. Lei Mr Potter scAd, ( & tter<6bj^itabl4) quantity, aay : a taW r im§ tvtjk then you will have- an undbufitei ie»t. M •'..THEpßosMst'is 3;irewt .=»•-.■ Strip the. flax leave, properly. Binse the fibre in eold'^kfer, *a boy puts it into Potter's machine, another boy takes it off as the travel r ling band delivers. it to him, rinsi again, dry it. Thus -a fibre - loffc white, Btroiig, , ftnd. un|^rm in quality is produced fey mechanical action, as fast as the' strippers san throw the ; fibre. Qff^.&yi^b. with P**-^^^*BppHpt|wy. ' No .steepiog/;|wg|^i^K^feo[, an d tew. hands ''lor wj^^|(fe'|Jok takef from four to Beveti^^^3 r y» *«* cording to the w^atfeßMj^y 5
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 17 June 1890, Page 2
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278Potter's Process. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 17 June 1890, Page 2
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