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Written below photo with black ink pen - Miranui about 1908.

Written on back with black ink pen – J. T. Bovis Some of the Miranui workmen about 1907. or 1908. {James Hallam Stout St. Shannon}crossed out}

Written on back with blue ballpoint pen - Mrs C.W. Shirriffs Longburn Phone 82.911 (P. Nth.)

Miranui Flaxmill employees of A & L Seifert’s Flax-dressing Co. Ltd., c.1908 1 B&W photo print, mounted

Group photo outside stripping shed. Man (centre, foreground) sitting on ground holding child, has been identified as Mr R.H. (Dick) Webb, the mill manager.

Used in book – “From Bush & Swamp”, page 99, with caption - Some of the employees of A & L Seifert’s Flaxdressing Co Ltd about 1910, photographed outside the stripping shed of the Miranui mill. The man sitting on the ground in the centre (holding a young child) is R.H. (Dick) Webb, the mill manager.

See also – Acc.#s2002.019.0010a & b (copies dated c.1910)

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Horowhenua Historical Society Inc.”

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circa 1908 to circa 1910

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