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Description

This photograph album contains photographs of the Seifert flaxmills Weka and Miranui. Flax workers are pictured cultivating, gathering, drying and processing the fibres. Details of the transport operations undertaken by cart and barge are also shown.
The album was given to R H Webb on 9 March 1918 by the Managing Director of the mills, Alfred Seifert.

Identification

Object type
Photo Album
Date
August 1917 to October 1917
Digitisation ID
2015P_MathesonS3-2V5_011971_001
Format
Paper
Held In
"Community Archives"

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flax industry,
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