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Forecast industry to reach million §

Some 92 Prince Edward Is- land farmers produced flax last year worth close to $100,000 as vincial industry that its backers say will increase in volume to the stage where it will reach a value of at least $1,000.000 an- tually to Island agriculture

The closer,.to 100 farmers in production last year earned $100 per acre— that was the contract Qmount for an average of a lit- tle more than 10 4cres each, and Zager Salome, Ross Corn- ers and Melis Visser, Graven-

deel, Holland, who was here dur- \Was expected to orrive early working capital

ing the harvesting operation and is stil] on the Island, were both pleased with the opening -of what they hoped would-++ develop into a valuable Island industry: It should te noted here that there are others who did not

share that flax industry. enthu-|

siasm. When Mr. Salome applied for government backing late in 1963, after receiving word that test samples of flax grown in the Island ‘‘were slightly better than anything grown in Europe”’ the backing was refused on the | etrength of a report from a re- |

search firm whose report was considerably less than enthus- | fastic

But Mr. Salome, and others who were the spearheads of the

‘flax industry idea, were satis- fied that the production was ,good—some of it was excellent —they said most of the crop was sold in England even before the harvesting Was completed, and they were, eagerly looking for- ward to sie arrival of process- ing equipment which would in- clude the scutchers and ot her equipment that would produce

processed into linen and other

| materials.

SOME DELAY Processing equipment ‘which

last autumn was so late in arriv

ing that it was not set up until

last month and a, temporary

the linen fibres which would be.

this study are known, commer- cial flax production would not

-be._dustified.” But failure to win the approv- al of researchers, and to get

financial backing from the gov- ‘ernment didn’t stop Mr. Salome and his associates They sold

|the proposition to a banker who jagreed to back them if they did

some backing on their own. Qne condition was that each

producer would invest $80 per

acre, or one-half of his $100 per

acre contract, in the project, and that was done. In all the for the first

year totalled $130,000, Mr. Gal-

jore told this paper 4 few mon- ths ago

tpreakdown delayed the process-|MAY EXPAND

ing work further. Mr Salome told this paper he expected to get underway in the early days ‘of this month.

But it is not the intention “to |process the product here beyond lthe linen fibre stage Further machinery would be too costly lto make the operation profitab- le in the foreseeable future, it jwas explained

The Arthur D. Little report on jeconomic development possibil- jities in Prince County said that “considerable additional study

fmust be made to determine the |

feasibility of the industry. here” ‘and added ‘‘until the results of

If the developments of the first year are really successful, the industry people were told, further ba¢king would be avail- able in future:

The eventual goal is some- thing close to 10,000 acres and a plant that in the words of Mr. Salome would provide employ- ment for approximately 200 men throughout the year.

The optimistic outlook stirred the interest of Islanders every- where and most of them were pulling for the industry to be successful here, though it still has to prove itself over the long- haul period

College facilities stretched to limit

Facilities at Prince of Wales College were stretched to the limit in the 1964 term which saw some 779 students registered for high school and university courses

The increased enrolment an overflow of students the Vocational School where all English. history commerce classes aré held

Also located in the Vocational School for the first time is a

sent

wing, and being

into~

library for high school students,.

a move which has helped relieve congestion in the main library in the college. In charge of the high school library is Millie Mul-

len, afid college Jibrarian is Mary Donahoe

Régistration for university years hit an al] - time record in September. 1944 according to Registrar Gordon L Bennett A class of 75 students, the

largest in the history of the col lece, enrolled for the fourth

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year program, with 192 in third year

A M per cent inerease in teacher training students was repeated over the 1963-64 total.

Over 20 student: registered in September for the Grade 12 program, a 38 per cent inerease ever jast vear In addition, 55 students enrolled in Grade 11, and 9 in the comméfce pro gram.

Mr. Bennett noted that 46 per cent of the high school students enrolled this year for agricultus ral courses

In addition to students enrol- led for regular courses, there aré a number of “special” stu- dents attending part time

Teaching staff at the college stands at 44

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