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Kōrero: South Pacific economic relations

Stacks of sugar sacks

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Stacks of sugar sacks

These sacks of sugar are piled up inside a corrugated-iron storage shed at the Colonial Sugar Refining Company refinery in Birkenhead in the early 1900s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-8510

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Geoff Bertram, South Pacific economic relations – Sugar and phosphate, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24241/stacks-of-sugar-sacks (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Geoff Bertram, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.