He pārongo atu anōScutching the fibre, Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon

Description

The Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon, was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. The scutching machine is the boxlike arrangement on the right comprising of six revolving wooden beaters to beat out any loose vegetable matter in the hanks of fibre. Workers feed flax fibre (on the floor)into the machine. The scutched hanks wait on the rail to be baled.

Tautuhi

Momo rauemi

Image

Pākanga

Public Photograph Collection Fx 26

Date

circa 1907

Tautuhi matihiko

2007P_Fx26_FLA_0619

E puritia ana ki

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