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Kōrero: Flax and flax working

Making woolpacks

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From the 1930s a local industry developed to process flax fibre. Woolpacks were one of the products made for the New Zealand market. This newsreel from 1943 shows packs being made of flax fibre at a Foxton factory, and then filled with wool for export.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Weekly Review 74. National Film Unit, 1943

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, Flax and flax working – Industry changes: 1930s–2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/10417/making-woolpacks (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.