HEMP INDUSTRY.
In our last issue we published a Dominion .interview with ,Mr. C. JL
Wilson. Local millers expressed surprise at some of the statements appearing in the interview. Mr. Wilson informs the Dominion in today’s issue that the report did not give the correct interpretation of his remarks. He writes: “I did not attribute any recent improvement in the London prices of New Zealand hemp to the product of cultivated flax, of which none is yet available. Such price improvements as there have been are attributable to a general market appreciation, possibly allied with recently improved quality. This improvement in quality from some mills has to some considerable extent been the result of the work of instructors sent out by the Hemp Division of the Department of Agriculture, and has already caught the attention of manufacturers overseas.
“Also it is incorrect to say that advances have been made that enable « ton of hemp to be produced from 5 tons of cultivated leaf, as against 8 to SA tons from wild grown flax. The fact is that progress in the selection of varieties of flax under intensive cultivation is such that there is no doubt of some varieties being able to produce a ton of hemp from. 5 to 6 tons of leaf, and it is the aim of progressive flax planters to concentrate on such varieties in their 'cultivated fields. In another direction also, viz., in an entirely different method of stripping—experiments in connection with which are at an advanced stage —very much less leaf will be required to produce a ton of hemp than with the present methods.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3901, 31 January 1929, Page 2
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270HEMP INDUSTRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3901, 31 January 1929, Page 2
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