FLAX BY-PRODUCTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2184, 2 October 1920, Page 3

FLAX BY-PRODUCTS.

Mr Howard L. Dolamore, general manager of the N.Z. Paper Mills, Ltd., who recently met members of the Flaxmillcrs’ Association in eonferenee re the utlisation of /lax byproducts in the manufacture of paper, writes as follows to our Palmerston evening contemporary; •

“Mr J. H.-Stevens’ report on the use of by-products of the llaxmilling industry in the manufacture of paper contains one or two statements that may convey an erroneous impression as far as my company is concerned, it is not true, ns stated at the 'Palmerston meeting, that a Wellington paper merchant, or anyone else for that matter, has shipped waste material to our mills free of charge as a bribe to obtain supplies of our products. Someone bis misinformed Mr Slovens, and T must give this sin lenient n flat contradiction at the earliest moment. Mr Stevens has also gained a wrong impression regarding our intentions at our Mat aura plant. A new mill is being erected there which will be the largest of. its kud south of the Equator. The remodelling of the present plant there wll conic later. J trust, sir, yon will allow me this opportunity of thanking the Flaxmillers’ Association tor their kindness to me during my visit to Palmerston North, and lor the facilities they have afforded me for an investigation of the llaxmilling industry as it applies to the papermaking industry. I am quite sure that the oulcome will materially assist all of us in the future. At the same time, 1 wish to make it (dear dial plionninm tenax is not an ‘ideal’ material for paper-making. The best paper-mill chemists in the world have been unable to achieve success with (lax (before the war die Germans gave up their experiments on our behalf m disgust), but I am glad to say that a tier very many years of patient effort on our own part we have succeeded in solving the problem to a great extent. Having succeeded so far we purpose going straight ahead.”