Linen Flax Industry Machinery Purchased
DESPATCH PROM BRITAIN LONDON, Dec. 1. The 14 units of machinery to be installed as a plant for reaping and treating lien flax in the Rangiora district, ordered by tho Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at New Zealand House in August, are to be shipped to the Dominion during the next fortnight. The machinery, made in Belgium, is valued at slightly over £IOOO. Linen flax fibre is used in the making of canvas duck for tents, tarpaulins, aeroplane fabric, rope and cordage. In wartime it is an essential product. Supplies were formerly received by Britain from Russia, until the Soviet ceased exporting. A proportion of the Irish crop is at present being shipped j to America to provide part of tho credit ( facilities for British purchases of munitions. Baltic shipments to Britain have ceased.
The opinion is held that there would be an excellent market for New Zealand linen flax in Britain, particularly during wartime.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MT19391230.2.73
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 308, 30 December 1939, Page 8
Word Count
161Linen Flax Industry Machinery Purchased Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 308, 30 December 1939, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in