THE HEMP INDUSTRY.
Visiting New Zealand at present is Mr Hubert Boecken, who has for many years been a successful inventor of varied mechanical appliances, and more especially of machinery for treating fibrous products. Some time ago, at the suggestion of the High Commissioner (the Hon. Thcs. Mackenzie) Mr Joseph Liggins, of Tokomaru, (president of the New Zealand Flaxmillers’ Association) interviewed Mr Boecken at Home, and explained the nature of New Zealand flax and the difficulties experienced in treating it. Mr Boecken at once procured sufficient samples of New Zealand flax to get to work on, and invented a machine which can apparently treat our phormium by a single process and without waste. The green flax goes in at one end ot the machine, and the marketable product is turned out ready for baling at the other. Plant embodying the machine has just been erected for Mr Liggins at Tokomaru aud tested, —Dominion.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1155, 7 October 1913, Page 3
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153THE HEMP INDUSTRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1155, 7 October 1913, Page 3
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