FLAX-MILLING NEEDS ATTENTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 113, 3 August 1927, Page 2

FLAX-MILLING NEEDS ATTENTION

“BADLY MILLED” INSTRUCTORS WANTED | '•Auckland flax millers, have * I good long leaf to work upon, there is no doubt it is badly milled. In these terms Mr. W. Petrie, tht 1 chief Government hemp graoen summed up local conditions at * meeting of the Northern rla* Millers' Association this morning. “New Zealand ' said Mr. Petrie, losing thousand? cf pounds annually through bad milling, chteflf attributable to the stripper keeper. It was fallacious for millers to se! in low-fair grade simply because i T was payable. As in every other industry, millers had to turn out the best." ! For some time now the speaker b* been moving for Government to lish flax training mill. Men put i a two-year course at such a scno' ; would be of inestimable value to industry. At the present time few on* vere receiving any training In ner points of the industry. One D* l in the Manawatu had told the si*****’* he had approximately 250 none of whom were receiving 8 P training. At the present time heCO . not spare a man to visit millet* instruct them on various P<>|*** * interest. He was already short-stair Mr. Petrie went Into severa* o points embracing all phases of tn dustry. . . t a It was unanimously decided resolution go forward to the ment from the meeting asking *° appointment of an instructor. SOUTHERN EXCHANGES YESTERDAY’S SALES Press Association. Christchurch. —Bank of New ■j’£ c 0 f Wales. £45 2s Erl £45 (two); B* New South Wales (new fully 2s 6d; Union Bank, £ls 2s. £ls; _ p< i Insurance, T7s 6d. 77s 3d; New cem u Government Inscribed Stock, :>$ P? 45# 1933, £ 100 17.> 6d: Goldsbrough. MO‘ 3d; Goldsbrough, Mort (rights), »* *