More Info →Makerua Flax Swamp

Description

This is a view of the flax swamp and shows bundles of cut flax being trammed to the Mill. At first a 5 ton locomotive was used to haul the flax trucks, but this proved unsuccessful and so horses were used. The men in the photo were called ‘Trammies” and it was their job to look after the line, trucks and horses. In this photo there are 6 trucks of green leaf and each one is carrying about 1 ton.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

Public Photograph Collection Fx7

Date

circa 1907

Digitisation ID

2011N_Fx7_004628

Held In

"Coolstore"