THE HEMP INDUSTRY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9134, 1 May 1908, Page 8

THE HEMP INDUSTRY.

Au invention which bids fair have an impotant bearing m the Lew Zealand. hemp industry has recntly been perfected and tried with most encouraging results at Mr 0. buttie’s flaxuull at Warcmlle, neax \Jaharoa Mr Suttie himself is tiie orgiual inventor aud BAin^ftlK 8 A in^ ftl K the experimental machine in his mill. By mechanical means the fibre is caught across au endless travelling ' -'TObo on which it is firm, and while so held is conveyed through the shaking and washing apparatus, being afterwards automatically ruii ' a liolder, where it is made up into h'-nks ready for the field. By means of the apparatus the amount of labour required in a mill is consider ably reduced, the mechanical appliances doing the workof the catcher, shakers, and washers usu employed in the glory hole, is claimed however, sthat tlu .^ sa y u J of labour, considerable as lfc not by any means represent all the advantages of the invention .as in addition, the work is so and evenly done that the product .is more uniform, the ii-aantity of less, and the time required for bleaching lessened to two A ay t s : Moreover, the power_ required to operate the mechanism is mated to be under one horse power) and the machines are simple and strongly built. Mr Suttie has been experimenting m couneciion w the invention for the yeasr and the machine he has m 0P at his mill is the result of a large amount of study continued test*. It is only recently that the machine has been completed, _ and it speaks well for the invention that every miller who has seen the machinery in operation is greatly impressed by ire advantages, aIJ (l airea several machines are on order lor different mills throughout New Zealand.