CO-OPERATIVE FLAXMILLING.
! The low price of fibre and the ;higli [ price of labour is likely tonypek ;fch&. flaxmilling industry in 'New. Zealand. The Levin paper, however,! lins discovered a way out of the difficulty. It, suggests that the employees work the flaxmills on the- co«os«rative' principle. If co-operative running of the mills could be 'arranged, backed by substantial reductions in- the "royalties" chai'ged by green flax owners, the flaxmilling industry of : New Zealand could be tided over the financially fearful position to which i: it has /been brought by the. sudden l and in some respects inexplicable 'I diminution in, the. selling vaJuepV of ! flax on the world's markets. The point is om which might well , be ! considered, amongst others alfriost | equally germane, by the suggested | conference of flaxmillers which: this [ journal suggested in a recent issue.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10135, 13 January 1911, Page 4
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137CO-OPERATIVE FLAXMILLING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10135, 13 January 1911, Page 4
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