THE FLAX INDUSTRY.
IMPROVED TREATMENT SOUGHT. Pau,ikrston N., May 20. A well-attended meeting of flaxmillers was held here on Thursday to discuss matters brought up by Mr Wm. Akers, who has just returned from a visit to Manila and Europe. In London Mr Akers had seen a Dr, Manmann, who is an inventor of a process for utilising by-products. This process Dr. Manmann was willing to give to New Zealand millers if it was made worth his while. At Thursday’s meeting it was pointed out that the gum and the dye from fibre (both at present deemed drawbacks in flax-dress-ing) were most valuable. A strong deputation of millers was appointed ■ to wait on the Minister and ask that a bonus be offered for inventors of machinery and other means of improving the treatment of flax and cheapening the cost of production. A substantial bonus is to be asked for, and it is to be suggested that any expenditure made by the Government will be met from a tonnage tax on the fibre exported. [A full report of the meeting will appear in our next issue.]
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 842, 21 May 1910, Page 3
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185THE FLAX INDUSTRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 842, 21 May 1910, Page 3
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