Ngā Rauropi Whakaoranga

Chapter 5: "Where the Māori led - Phormium tenax". pp. 60-69. An account of the traditional uses of flax and the contemporary flax industry. Discusses attempts to improve quality of flax fibre, by other methods than laborious hand-dressing.

"It is an open secret that New Zealand fibre of the best quality - for which, by the way, it is generally supposed there is no market- is actually used in the manufacture of textile cloths.