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Kōrero: Southland places

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

Reference: 1/2-027129; F

by Will Cameron

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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David Grant, Southland places – Around Invercargill, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/20161/flax-milling (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Grant, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 25 May 2015.