Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1900. Our Flax Mills.
Somebody with a turn for the imaginative has informed a contemporary, who has accepted the information without investigation, that four flax mills have been closed, and 250 men put out of emp oyment in the Foxton district. To those who reside here the statement has caused much amusement, and recalls the time when the same newspaper gravely recorded the fact of a serpent sucking a cow at Kereru. As, however, such a statement having been made may perhaps interfere with business interests, we can say that not one mill has closed down here, and the men who have been discharged are those who were employed on the night shifts, as with the winter jjoming on no mill is working overtime. Accuracy is not always to be looked for in our contemporaries who greedily seize the first rumour and publish it without caution. We are glad to say that owing to prices for hemp having improved by two or three pounds all the mills will keep at work during winter.
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Manawatu Herald, 17 May 1900, Page 2
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178Manawatu Herald. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1900. Our Flax Mills. Manawatu Herald, 17 May 1900, Page 2
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