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Flax milling

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Flax milling

Flax was harvested and milled throughout southern Southland in the early 1900s. These workers are at Ōtatara, west of Invercargill.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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David Grant, Southland places – Around Invercargill, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20161/flax-milling (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 2 March 2009, updated 25 May 2015.