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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.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2007P_Fx26_FLA_0619
Title
Scutching the fibre, Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Fx 26
Held In
Coolstore

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Creation

Created By
Place
Horowhenua Region
Date
circa 1907

Object rights

Credit Line
Palmerston North City Library

Taxonomy

Tags
agriculture,
flax industry,
hemp,
mill,
photographs,
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