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Description

In 1912 the mill was owned by Walter Bock and Henry Coley, who had purchased it about three years earlier from Oliver Austin. It was situated in Stewart Street, Foxton, just south of the Borough boundary.

Tautuhi

Momo rauemi
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Date
1912
Tautuhi matihiko
2007N_Fx38_FLA_0626
E puritia ana ki
"Coolstore"

Ngā rauemi e whai pānga ana

Loading dried flax fibre onto cart
Stripping machine at work, Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon
Cart load of washed fibre at a Bock and Coley Mill, Foxton
Paddockers laying down flax to dry, Foxton
Barry Huff cutting flax, Moutoa Estate
E G Halidone & A Wallbutton stripping flax by machine.
Employees of King & Baker's Emu flax mill, Foxton
Flax workers camp, Tokomaru
Unloading flax from punts at Foxton
Flax on Mr Herman Seifert's Opiki farm
Awa flax mill, Foxton
'Maitai' flax mill

Pūnaha whakarōpū

Ngā tūtohu
flax bales,
flax industry,
hemp,
horse,
photographs,
Tūtohu Hapori

Tuku kōrero mai mō te whakararu

Ngā rauemi e whai pānga ana

Loading dried flax fibre onto cart
Stripping machine at work, Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon
Cart load of washed fibre at a Bock and Coley Mill, Foxton
Paddockers laying down flax to dry, Foxton
Barry Huff cutting flax, Moutoa Estate
E G Halidone & A Wallbutton stripping flax by machine.
Employees of King & Baker's Emu flax mill, Foxton
Flax workers camp, Tokomaru
Unloading flax from punts at Foxton
Flax on Mr Herman Seifert's Opiki farm
Awa flax mill, Foxton
'Maitai' flax mill