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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 145, 10 March 1874, Page 2

The Home News notices a local exhibition held lately at Dundee, at which the convertibility of the New Zealand fibre was abundantly proved. The Sydney Morning Herald thus summarises the report: —“The exhibits are specified in the Home News of November. There was a yarn, much praised, spun from a mixture of 25 per cent. New Zealand flax and 75 per cent. Riga flax; a cloth from bleached yarn—the yarn spun from a mixture of 25 per cent. New Zealand flax and 75 Riga flax; a specimen of twilled sheeting, two yards wide, made from native-dressed phormium; linen manufactured from native-dressed phormium ; canvas bags of all sorts; towelling of admirable quality—the warp of nativedressed phormium, the weft or phormium prepared by Mr. Thorne; woolpacks, sacking, excellent sheeting, huckaback towelling, bleached and unbleached; some in which the phormium formed the weft and Irish flax the warp; damask tablecloths, stair covering; damask towelling—the warp of ordinary linen yarn, the weft of phormium; dice-pattern tableclotn of the same; sheep nets; gaskin adapted for engineers, and hammock cloth. For rope and cordage of all sorts this material is accepted now as second to no other at present used; and we understand that the paper-makers in this colony have found that it gives an excellent paper mixed with certain proportions of other fibres.