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Tony Hunt gives a run-down of the history of New Zealand’s flax fibre industry. Behind him is one of the few operational flax strippers remaining in New Zealand.

As part of Local History Week, members of the public and City Library staff visited Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom and the Flax Stripper Museum in Foxton.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
IMCA Digital Archive
Date
October 30, 2018
Digitisation ID
2018BD_2018-46_025374
Format
Born Digital
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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flax,
flax industry,
flaxmill,
foxton,
museum,
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