THE FLAX TRADE.
-* Tm? recent rise in tho prica of flax has piven a new impetus to the business. In UaKlnn, much confidence is felt in tho future of the flax industry. Soma lots of dressed fibre from there have just made £20 per ton in the Auckland market, and this is regarded as a paying price. Messrs La Trobo Bros, are about to start their Waitotunrt mill again. Worked by water power, and with a (rood supply of the raw material, they should be able to make it pay. At Mr Hall's flax-mil'., on the West Coast, o-ierations are in full swinp, over 40 hands being employed. It has been stated that the available supply of R rcen flax to tins mill is the largest and finest in this portion of the colony, being practically mexhaust-
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2911, 12 March 1891, Page 3
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137THE FLAX TRADE. Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2911, 12 March 1891, Page 3
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