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Biography: Fleming, Thomas

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Thomas Fleming entered the flourmilling business in Southland in 1870, and founded an empire that was to endure, as this mid twentieth century advertisement for a Flemings oat breakfast cereal shows.

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J. F. Fleming. 'Fleming, Thomas', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/154/advertisement-for-creamoata (accessed 5 June 2026).