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Quality Yarns mill

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Quality Yarns mill

In the 2000s Quality Yarns at Milton was one of several textile mills spinning fibres other than wool. It produced yarns made of a blend of possum fur and Merino wool.

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Jane Tolerton, Agricultural processing industries – Woollen mills in the 20th and 21st centuries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25171/quality-yarns-mill (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 6 April 2010.