ALCOHOL FROM FLAX.
WASTE PRODUCTS UTILISED. * CAWTHORN INSTITUTE RESEARCH. "As att“iiistaiice of the excellent work being done by the Cawthorn Institute in the matter of research into waste products, it was stated in the course of a deputation’s interview with the Prime Minister at Wellington on Thursday, that Professor Easterfield had utilised the vegetable refuse from the flax industry by redistributing it on the flax fields, with beneficial results to the plants, and he had been also experimenting with the green waste. Professor Easterfield is convinced that not only can he distil alcohol from the green residue of the mills, buff that both in quantity and quality the new by-product would go far towards satisfying New Zealand’s needs 1 in' industrial alcohol.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2609, 21 July 1923, Page 3
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122ALCOHOL FROM FLAX. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2609, 21 July 1923, Page 3
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