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• The New Zealand flax-plant grows there in abundance.
• There is also a programme on Inaccessible Island to eradicate New Zealand Flax and other invasive plants.
• In the 1930s, the Manx government intended to make a profit by growing New Zealand flax on the Curraghs.
• Kete are traditionally woven from the leaves of New Zealand flax ( " Phormium tenax ", known in cabbage tree.
• Graves was inventive and " brought to considerable perfection several machines-- especially one for preparing the New Zealand flax ".
• The island had a monocrop economy until 1966, based on the cultivation and processing of New Zealand flax for rope and string.
• The prepared fibre ( muka ) of the New Zealand flax ( " Phormium tenax " ) became the basis of most clothing.
• A local industry manufacturing fibre from New Zealand flax was successfully reestablished in 1907 and generated considerable income during the First World War.
• The traditional weaving material is muka, fibre prepared from the New Zealand flax ( " Phormium tenax " ) by scraping, pounding and washing.
• New Zealand Flax was cultivated on Saint Helena from the late 1800s to around 1966 for the production of string and rope and for export.
• She wove using materials such as muka ( prepared fibre of New Zealand flax ), paua shell, stainless steel wire and feathers, including kiwi feathers.
• Hunter was the Storemaster-General of the New Zealand Company In April 1840 he was appointed as a Director of the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Flax Association.
• An experiment in 1874 to produce flax from Phomium Tenax ( New Zealand flax ) failed ( the cultivation of flax recommenced in 1907 and eventually became the island s largest export ).
• Thus, by the early 19th century, the quality of rope materials made from New Zealand flax was known internationally, as was the quality of New Zealand trees which were used for spars and masts.
• These include pingao and feathers, but most of all harakeke ( New Zealand flax ) in all its forms-its leaves, its handsome flower and seed heads, the seeds and muka ( the fine silky fibre obtained from the leaves ).
• Cook went ashore on Tuesday 11 October 1774, and is said to have been impressed with the tall straight trees and New Zealand flax plants, which, although not related to the Northern Hemisphere flax plants after which they are named, produce fibres of economic importance.
• First stop : Austral ( Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia ) with its stately silver-dollar eucalyptus tree, Ixora ( jungle flame ) shrub ablaze with globes of tiny red flowers, and bronze New Zealand flax flourishing behind a low mound of blue-starred cuphea ( false heather ).
• These schemes included a plan to grow oaks in the unlikely location of Sierra Leone for Royal Navy ships, a plan to ship Ascension rocks to England, and a plan to ship New Zealand flax to England which he discussed in a letter to Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst.
• Much of the island is covered by New Zealand flax, a legacy of former industry, but there are some original trees augmented by plantations, including those of the Millennium Forest project, which was established in 2002 to replant part of the lost Great Wood and is now managed by the Saint Helena National Trust.
• The earliest organised attempt to colonise New Zealand came in 1825, when the New Zealand Company was formed in London, headed by the wealthy MP . The company unsuccessfully petitioned the British Government for a 31-year term of exclusive trade and for command over a military force, anticipating that large profits could be made from New Zealand flax, kauri timber, whaling and sealing.