TO REVOLUTIONISE THE FLAX INDUSTRY
NEW MACHINE DESIGNED To revolutionise the flax industry is the purpose of a machine being constructed in Auckland. The machine does away with the lengthy 14-day process of the present flax treating industry and in a 14minute process in one machine turns out more higher-grad€; fibre. At present nine tons of flax is reduced to about one ton of fibre and some tow. With the new process it is hoped to turn out from the sam<* amount of flax two tons of higher grade product. The machine uses a new process for de-gumming flax. During the war the Government offered a large bonus for a machine of this nature. The peculiarity of the New Zealand flax plant to New Zealand alone and the areas of land growing flax or fit to grow flax only makes the substantiation of claims made for the machine a question of nationa interest.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 7
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153TO REVOLUTIONISE THE FLAX INDUSTRY Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 7
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