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Kōrero: Otago places

Mosgiel woollen mill, 1875

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Mosgiel woollen mill, 1875

Four years after the Mosgiel woollen mill opened, this engraving appeared in the Illustrated New Zealand Herald. It shows the factory buildings, the hills that separate the Taieri Plain from the coast, and farm workers in the foreground.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PUBL-0047-1875-001

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Taieri, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/22777/mosgiel-woollen-mill-1875 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.