. Cotton and other vegetable fibres : their production and utilisation . From the Collections ol the Imperial Institute Drying New Zealand Hemp. From the Collections of the Imperial Institute Grading New Zealand Hemp [193 NEW ZEALAND HEMP 193 Waikato and other interior districts of the NorthIsland, the production was confined to the nativetribes north of Auckland, so that in 1861 the exportfell to two tons, of value £42. Attempts were thenmade to devise machinery by means of which the fibrecould be profitably extracted by European this time the increasing demand for white ropeand
. Cotton and other vegetable fibres : their production and utilisation . From the Collections ol the Imperial Institute Drying New Zealand Hemp. From the Collections of the Imperial Institute Grading New Zealand Hemp [193 NEW ZEALAND HEMP 193 Waikato and other interior districts of the NorthIsland, the production was confined to the nativetribes north of Auckland, so that in 1861 the exportfell to two tons, of value £42. Attempts were thenmade to devise machinery by means of which the fibrecould be profitably extracted by European this time the increasing demand for white ropeand the limited quantity of Manila hemp availableled to a rise in the value of New Zealand hemp from;^2i to £C)6 per ton, and even to £76 in America duringthe Civil War. These high prices stimulated theendeavour to introduce Phormium to compete withManila, and several machines were invented for pro-ducing the fibre rapidly from the green leaf. Withthese machines the export trade again increased, sothat from 1866 to 1871 the yearly average was about£56,000. The total quantity exported between 1864and 1876 amounted to 26,434 tons, valued at
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