FAVOURABLE PROSPECTS
DOMINION FLAX INDUSTRY BRADFORD EXPERT’S VIEW (By Telerranti.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The possibilities of rehabilitation of the New' Zealand flax industry and even for the establishment of a secondary industry of vital importance to the Dominion were suggested in a statement by Mr John Redshaw, of Bradford, before his departure from Wellington by the Avvatea to-night after a holiday visit. His statement amounted to a conviction that soft flax fibre could be carded and spun into a yarn suitable for the manufacture of textiles. “I have had submitted to me by a group in New Zealand samples of soft fibre prepared by a simple process from New Zealand flax,” said Mr Redshaw. “These samples have the consistency of wool. From my knowledge of carding and spinning machinery I can guarantee that this fibre can be carded and spun into yarn for textile manufacture. With experimentation the thickness and coarseness of yarn best produced from the fibre could be ascertained.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 12
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161FAVOURABLE PROSPECTS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20743, 1 March 1939, Page 12
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