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Haurongo: Seifert, Alfred

With their children

With their children

Alfred and Esther Seifert are shown with their children Herbert (aged six) and Eileen (four) in Palmerston North in 1908. The year before, Alfred and his brother Louis had purchased 4,200 acres of flax swamp and built ‘Miranui’, the largest flax mill in New Zealand, near Shannon.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Jane Pollard

Reference: Jane Pollard, A mingled yarn: the Seifert family and flaxmilling in New Zealand. Bowral: J. Pollard, 2004, p.52

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Judy Malone. 'Seifert, Alfred', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1996, whakahou November 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/38873/with-their-children (accessed 4 June 2026).