GRADING FLAX.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 August 1891, Page 3

GRADING FLAX.

(TO THEJEDITOii 07 THE HANAWATU HEROD.) Sm,— l have no doubt you will be plfeased to learn that progress is being niade towards making grading a -fact, but as yet the progress is slow. All the merchants admit the warfchof the 'effort and will do what they can to forward it, but contracts are- made for the flax merely to be passed Hn a certain, or rather an uncertain, vague, undefined way, and ti|fjt|j'eaft : coftt(i f a"ct3 run out the introduction of . -a , new .system, wi il be Bon\ewhat^el§.yed,- ... ., „.,.. ■ . Some objection was taken . to the price.! for-. grading— 6d per bale-— to meet that and secure the. end I have in view, I have made the price the same as hitherto paid for merely passing, . It wil! not pay, but when the system has been worked and fairly adopted, my intention is to h»«^ it over to some other to carry out. I shall benefit, with all other flax-millers,, indirectly. ■ So far Lhave made no effort to act otherwise than as an impartial judge of quality, were I to act as either sfelfing or buying broker there might b^ajiahger-of losing tbat impartiality, altfroagtt" werer the : m : fllers " to' unite ' to sell through one man only, better prices I am pertain, could be obtained. I am, <Xc, '' •'"•'•• >' ■ Robt. Gabdneb. .;. Wellington, 19fchAug., 1891. . ! j