THE HEMP INDUSTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3782, 11 January 1908, Page 3

THE HEMP INDUSTRY.

At the meeting of the executive of the Flaxmillers’Association at Palmerston oa Wednesday, it was decided to ask the Department to enter 1 into co-operation with the other associations throughout the Dominion for the purpose of holdi ing a flax exhibition and conventibn. The exhibition will include ■ fibre suitable for export and of standard grades, as now required by the Department, growing leaves of various types, flax machinery of the most improved nature now in use, also machinery in the hands of patentees and not in use, and manufactured articles. Power is to be provided for the dembnstratlon of the machinery. Manufacturers of flax machinery will be afforded every facility for exhibiting machinery. It was resolved thatthe officers of the fibre divisions and the graders of the Department should be in attendance at the exhibition for the purpose, of discussing the various exhibits for the education of millers; that a convention lot millers and others interested -in the industry be arranged on the lines now in vogue at the National Dairy Association, and that ex* perts from the Department should be asked to deliver addresses suitable to the various subjects; that the proceedings should include a dinner and social, gathering; that the Department oe asked to secure ■tor the exhibition a display of fibres from other countries; that a deputation wait on the Minister for Agriculture in connection with matters of interest to flaxmillers; that the Association ask the Department to allow the chief fibre expert, Mr Fulton, to lecture in Palmerston North on his return from abroad.