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

Story by Geoff Bertram, published 12 April 2010.