THE HEMP INDUSTRY
Mr Field has asked the Minister of Agriculture whether he is aware Unit the hemp nnmufactnring industry, which is now seriously embarrassed by Hie enormously increased railway freights, is from that ami other causes steadily giving way to dairying and slock fattening, and magniliccni Haig is being destroyed in the process, and whether he will not as Minister in charge of this valuable labour-absorbing industry intervene and see that the question of railway freight on hemp is reconsidered; whether he will assist in any way lie fairly can to encourage the manufacture into paper of such portion of the waste products of the iiax leaf as is suitable for that purpose; whether he will take such other steps as he may deem necessary to save this, our own exclusive industry, from extinction.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2187, 9 October 1920, Page 4
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135THE HEMP INDUSTRY Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2187, 9 October 1920, Page 4
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