GRADING OF FIBRE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3739, 8 January 1907, Page 3

GRADING OF FIBRE.

The Government’s proposed new for the grading of flax, ’ which were recently circulated amongst the ■ flaxmillers of the colony, have says the Minister of Agriculture, generally met with * approval, and they will shortly be brought into operation. “We • have reduced the number of points in some of the grades,” ■ SitefrMr McNab, “making allow'Wk for the different qualities rev’Mfed. be cause there iare different via have in the case of dairy — one buyer wants coarse fibre, whilst another requires fibre to suit the making, say, of mutation silk. So t hat you have to have a system of grading that lets everybody know what material he is buying. This element we are trying to meet, not by putting any limitation upon the trade, but by making our grading an indication to buyers what the material is, so that it will hot be necessary for a purchaser to buy fibre that is highly pointed when a low pointed article may suit him. That . seeihs’ to be the desire of the millerfL and I think we have now come to an understanding about it Thjtre was a little feeling in some places about the graders, but I bejbye that is now wearing off, and3feat we shall soon have a " grading in vogue that yif give general satisfaction.” - 1 •: >a_—