DOMINION NEWS.
HOUSES STARVED. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, November 13. Fines ranging from £1 to £5, with costs, with tjje alternative of seven days’ imprisonment, were imposed on several persons at the Magistrate's Con it for starving horses in the Upper Hutt district. It was stated in one case that no fewer than nine horses had died of starvation. A NEW INDUSTRY. Palmerston North, November 13. A movement is on foot to establish mills in the district to make brown paper from flax refuse. A largo meeting of flax-millers has approved of the proposal and appointed Messrs M. Cohen, Broad, C. A. Loughnan and !. Seifert a committee to ascertain the cost of machinery, etc., and report at a further meeting. It is considered that the refuse of flax manufacture, which is now wasted, and also the waste vegetation of flax swamps can bo profitably utilised in this way.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 78, 14 November 1911, Page 5
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148DOMINION NEWS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 78, 14 November 1911, Page 5
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