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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1920, Page XII

Are New Zealanders to be compelled to use coarser flour? We know not. That, however, is what is happening in England. A late number of The Miller announces that the British millers are ordered to extract 80 per cent, of the flour from the wheat, thus bringing bread to war quality, obviously to eke out the supplies of wheat. In New Zealand the common of extraction is 72, .and 74 is exceptional. The English paper points out that to extract 80 per cent, of Hour leaves only 20 per cent, of bran and pollard, and that the reduction in the available quantity of these secondary products must have an injurious effect on the quality of butchering livestock. The Duke of Devonshire's conservatory at Chatsworth—the largest hothouse in England, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton—has been blown up by guncotton. Labour conditions and the high price of coal made its upkeep. too expensive and experts decided that its 40,000 panes of glass and thousands of tons of ironwork could best be blown down by explosives. The wreckage will be salved and sold as scrap. The conservatory was one of the famous sights of Chatsworth, and the number of visitors who had passed through it run well into millions. ,