Flax Worker
Flax being loaded on to a train by hand for transportation to a Flax mill.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1900
L. G. West & Son, Plans for Workmen's Dwellings at Moutoa
These plans for worker accommodation at Moutoa were designed by L. G. West & Son for Whitaunui Limited. They include plans for repairs to the kitchen and dining room building at the Swamp Camp. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-19...
Creator: L G West
Date: 1914
L. G. West & Son, Plans for a Flaxmill at Tokomaru
These plans for a flax mill were designed by L. G. West and Son for Temukanui Limited. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in about 1880. In 1912 he formed a partnersh...
Creator: L G West
Date: 1914
Plan for Additions to Workers' Dining Room at the Moutoa Flaxmill
This plan for additions to the dining facilities at the Moutoa Flaxmill was designed by L. G. West and Son for Whitanui Limited. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West (1846-1919) established an architectural practice in Palmerston North in ...
Creator: L G West & Son
Date: 1917
L. G. West, Plans for accommodation at Moutoa Flaxmill
These plans for facilities at the Moutoa Flaxmill were designed by L. G. West for Whitaunui Ltd. They include plans for additions to the dining room, workmen's dwellings, stables and a water tankstand. The Danish-born architect Ludolph Georg West ...
Creator: L G West
Date: 1912
Green Spears: The Story of the Foxton Flax Industry
A booklet outlining operations in the Foxton flax industry including planting, harvesting, milling, manufactoring and finished products.
Creator: NZ Woolpack and Textiles
Place: Foxton
Pascal Street, Name and History
Name: Pascal
Suburb, Takaro
This street is named for Mr Louis M Pascal who owned the land when the street was formed, D.P. 578, section 294. Borough rate books reflect that his brother, Mr Claude Marie Pascal, had section 294 under his n...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2024
David Street, Name and History
Name: David
Suburb, Palmerston North Central
This street is believed to be named after Mr David Joseph Nathan (1858-1920), sometimes described as the father of the dairying industry. Mr DJ Nathan may have also been the road contractor who...
Creator: Heritage Team, Palmerston North City Library
Date: 2024
The Manawatū Journal of History: Issue 7
Contents:
p. 3 Editorial / Cushla Scrivens
p. 5 Girls, girls... Miss Victoria McKenzie at FAHS / Cushla Scrivens
p. 13 The Catholic Māori Church at Kai Iwi pā / Eljon Fitzgerald & Maureen Lawton
p. 22 Strippers, tubbers & scutchers: life a...
Creator: Manawatū Historic Journal Associates
Place: Manawatū
Date: 2011
Back Issues: The forgotten history of flax
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The role and history of flax in Manawatū and Horowhenua, from pre-European times to the mid- twentieth century. Harakeke, or New Zealand Flax, was named Phormium tenax by boto...
Creator: Joshua Reid
Place: Manawatū-Horowhenua
Date: October 8, 2022
Back Issues: Ōpiki bridge a monument to industrious ambition
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of the Ōpiki Suspension Bridge, also known as Tane Suspension Bridge, Rangitāne Swing Bridge and Opiki Toll Bridge.
Designed byJoseph Dawson and officially opened in ...
Creator: Val Burr
Place: Mānawatu
Date: December 2, 2023
Makerua Agricultural and Swamp Lands Auction
An advertisement for the auction of Makerua Estate Company's land between Shannon, Tokomaru and Linton.
Creator: MacDonald, Wilson & Co.
Place: Shannon
Date: circa 1903
Concrete foundations at Liggins flax mill, Tokomaru
Concrete foundations of the former Liggins flax mill in Tokomaru.
Creator: Russell Liggins
Place: Tokomaru
Date: 2010
Concrete foundations at Liggins flax mill, Tokomaru
Concrete foundations of the former Liggins flax mill in Tokomaru.
Creator: Russell Liggins
Place: Tokomaru
Date: 2010
Concrete foundations at Liggins flax mill, Tokomaru
Concrete foundations of the former Liggins flax mill in Tokomaru.
Creator: Russell Liggins
Place: Tokomaru
Date: 2010
Flax fibre grader at work
At work in the Wellington Harbour Board’s grading shed and hemp store.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Wellington
Date: circa 1910
Makerua Flax Swamp
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 ‘Tramm...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1907
Flax Mill workers
Mill workers sitting outside. This Mill is thought to have been the Paiaka Mill on the Manawatu River, then owned by Alfred Seifert (c 1907)
Creator: S. Collins, Dunedin
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1900 to circa 1907
Flax workers
Staff of an unidentified flax mill.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1902
Darcy Knewstubb clipping the tails of hanks of dried fibre
Large double-handled hedge clippers were used to trim the ‘tails’ on the hanks, while they dried and before the hanks were processed. Darcy Knewstubb was a well known 'paddocker'.
Creator: E A Phillips
Date: 1912
Punting flax down the Manawatu River to Foxton
A steam launch is towing a punt load of flax from the Moutoa Swamp to a flaxmill in the borough of Foxton.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1910 to 1912
Awa flax mill, Foxton
Awa flax mill belonged to Henry Berry. This view looks north along Harbour Street from the corner of Union Street, in Foxton.
Creator: George W Anderson
Date: circa 1912
Flax Commissioners
The Flax Commissioners of 1914 were appointed to adjudicate on the improvements in flax-dressing machinery submitted in connection with the 12,000 pound bonus offered by the New Zealand Government. (From left) back row : Charlie Ingram, flaxmiller...
Creator: Whalley and Co., Crown Studios
Date: 1914
Flax Cutters in the Makerua Swamp
This photograph shows unidentified flax workers in the Makerua swamp. The Makerua swamp was adjacent to the eastern bank of the Manawatu River and extended from Linton in the north to Shannon in the south. The swamp was 14,000 acres in size and ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Manawatu
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1912
Dried and Bleached Flax Fibre
Stripped flax fibre that has been laid out to dry and bleach is now ready for the final stage of preparation – Scutching.
As part of Local History Week, members of the public and City Library staff visited Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom and the F...
Creator: Adam Melville
Place: Foxton
Date: October 30, 2018
Man in Makerua flax swamp, near Shannon
Miranui Flaxmill was owned by A & L Seifert Flaxmilling Company Ltd and opened in 1907. This view looks eastwards with the Tararua Ranges in the background. the flax, sourced from the swamp, was taken by tram to the mill for processing.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Shannon, Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
Flax fibre grading shed and Hempstore, Wellington
Harbour Board grading shed.
Creator: Charles E Wildbore
Place: Wellington
Date: circa 1910
Unloading flax from punts at Foxton
This is possibly Awa Mill as there is no proper jetty.
Creator: George W Anderson
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: circa 1912
Flax on Mr Herman Seifert's Opiki farm
These plants were about three years, four months old and were to be cut by the side-leaf method for Mr Herman Seifert’s mill at Paiaka. From left: “F E” - Mr Fred Easton owner of Moutoa swamp; “J S” - unknown; “J B”- unknown; “H S” - Mr Herman S...
Creator: B B Wood - William Wood and Co. Ltd
Date: 1930
Flax mills on the riverbank at Foxton
This photograph was taken from the slopes of Ferry Hill (now Seaview Gardens), at the corner of Union and Harbour Streets. Includes Leven & Co’s “Hemp Grading and Wool Stores” (large multi-gabled building in the distance) and NZ shipping Company’...
Creator: George W Anderson
Date: 1912
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