FLAX LANDS OF THE COLONY.
[by telegraph—press association.l Wellington, Last Night. A Government return has been prepared, and shows the area of land in the colony carrying flax as follows : —Crown Lands, 110,000 acres; private, 179,450; native, 147.2G2; total, 440,402. With the exception of a few areas south'of Wellington, the only flax remaining in the colony is grown on the banks of lagoons, rivets or creeks, and isolate*! positions, and, until recently, it had been regarded as a weed and burnt.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2775, 26 April 1890, Page 2
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81FLAX LANDS OF THE COLONY. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2775, 26 April 1890, Page 2
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