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
These workers may have been working at Bock and Coley's portion of the Moutoa Swamp. From left: A Albury; Unknown; W Young; Unknown (partly concealed by flax); Charlie Morgan; William Newth; Morgan (?).
Creator: E A Phillips
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1912
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
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 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
This is possibly Awa Mill as there is no proper jetty.
Creator: George W Anderson
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: circa 1912
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
In 1912 the mill was owned by Walter Bock and Henry Coley, who had purchased it about three years earlier from Oliver Austin. It was situated in Stewart Street, Foxton, just south of the Borough boundary.
Creator: E A Phillips
Date: 1912
The 'Maitai' mill, on Akers' Riverdale estate, was established in 1899 by Styles and Coley and sold to the Green Flaxdressing Co Ltd., in 1907. It was situated about 2 1/2 miles upriver from the site of the present Moutoa flood gates (2007).
Creator: Unknown
Date: circa 1909
Published in the Manawatu Evening Standard 28 August 1974.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Date: 1974
These canvas and wood huts with corrugated iron chimneys were probably the living quarters of unmarried ‘flaxies’ employed at one of the mills in the Tokomaru area. Accommodation like this was typical of the flax milling industry until about 1907...
Creator: George W Anderson
Place: Tokomaru
Date: circa 1910 to circa 1912
The Emu mill stood in Harbour Street, Foxton. The workers are unidentified.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1902
Coley’s mill stood in Harbour Street, Foxton, by the Manawatu River. The photograph shows cut and processed flax.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1902
Paddockers are dismantling a stack of fibre in a drying paddock in Foxton. The hanks of dried fibre are being loaded into a dray for transport back to the flaxmill for scutching. Man standing left foreground by post, is Darcy Knewstub, others unid...
Creator: E A Phillips
Place: Foxton, Horowhenua
Date: 1912
The Miranui Flaxmill was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. Flax fibre is bleaching in the paddocks, while bales of hemp are being transported by horse and cart to Shannon where it would be transported by rail to Wellington. the c...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
Flax hanks set out for drying.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Foxton
Date: circa 1902
Published in the Manawatu Evening Standard 28 August 1974.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Moutoa, Manawatu
Date: 1974
This photo shows hanks of washed fibre being taken off the poles and stacked onto a dray, ready for carting to the bleaching paddocks – apparently at the end of Stewart Street, Foxton. This particular mill was owned by Bock and Coley and was situ...
Creator: E A Phillips
Place: Stewart Street, Foxton
Date: 1912
The Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon, was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. The stripping machine was a cast iron drum, with beaters attached, which revolved about 2000x a minute. It removed the green outer part, to reveal the flax...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Near Shannon, Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1910
The Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon, was the largest built in New Zealand, in 1907. Workers stand beside two gas engines which drove the scutching machines at the mill.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
This company owned the seven-stripper “Miranui” flaxmill at Shannon, the largest flax mill ever constructed in New Zealand. (From left)Back row: H F Gibbons; C J Monro; J P Innes; Hope Gibbons. Front row: Louis Seifert; Alfred Seifert, Managing D...
Creator: Bunting Studio
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1916
The Miranui Flaxmill was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. The view looks across the water reservoir to the rear of the stripping shed. Outside can be seen the rows of hanks which have been stripped and washed. These will be left...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907 to circa 1910
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 hank...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
The Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon, was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. At its height in 1926 it employed about 300 workers. Dick Webb, Mill Manager, is seated on the ground holding his daughter, in front of the first row of men.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: 1907
The Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon, was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. The view shows the bleaching paddocks, where flax hung on drying fences and lay on ground to dry. Stacks were also used for drying. Part of the scutching s...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
Charles Dahl's factory, manufacturing ropes, tents, horse covers, tarpaulins, oilskin clothing and shirts, was situated in Main Street east, between The Square and Princess Street, on part Section 15. Charles Dahl (4th from right) set up a tent m...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1896
This flaxmill was situated near the north bank of the Waikanae River, a few yards east of the railway line and north of the river bank. The locality was known as “The Pit”. Stansell’s flaxmill was operated c1899 - 1904, and was owned and managed ...
Creator: Alf C Morton
Place: Waikanae, Kapiti
Date: circa 1902
Prior to the construction of the Opiki suspension bridge in 1917, a wire rope crossed the Manawatu River at Rangitāne – now known as Opiki. The rope was situated on the downstream side of bridge site, and was constructed in 1904 by Mr Louis Siefer...
Creator: Hugh Akers
Date: circa 1916
The Miranui Flaxmill, near Shannon, was the largest flaxmill built in New Zealand, in 1907. A worker with the “Tangye” suction gas engines, two of which were used for driving the seven stripping machines at the mill.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Horowhenua Region
Date: circa 1907
The locomotive and tramlines, owned and operated by A & L Seifert’s Flaxmilling Company, were employed hauling trucks of flax from the Makerua swamp to the huge Miranui flaxmill, eatblished 1907. Miranui was the only mill in New Zealand to use a l...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Miranui, Shannon, Horowhenua
Date: circa 1908