This photograph shows a Hemp Grader examining a hank of fibre pulled out of a bale of flax fibre. A grade was assigned to each bale and this enabled overseas buyer to purchase fibre of a uniform quality. The photograph is thought to have been taken in a Wellington Harbour Board shed.
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Grading bales of flax
Tautuhi
- Momo rauemi
- Image
- Pūranga
- Lindsay Family Collection
- Date
- circa 1910
- Tautuhi matihiko
- 2011P_Fx62_004598
- E puritia ana ki
- Coolstore
Hanganga
- Te kaihanga
- Charles E Wildbore
- Te wāhi
- Wellington
Te manatārua
- Raihana
- Karekau he aukatinga e mōhiotia ana
Pūnaha whakarōpū
- Tūtohu Hapori