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Montage of 6 photographs of N Z Woolpack and Textiles factory including Spinning Department (3 canner to No 2 spinner to 5,6,7,8 spinners)/Preparing Department (for long fibre from finishing end to wards start-finishing drawing frame back to goods machine)/ Sewing Room(shows front row of hemmers looking back towards finishing of packs/ Weaving Department(notice drive belts)/Spinning and winding department (looking back of beaming area to spinners. Roll winder in foreground and cop winder to right of that. On leftbaxes for bind roll winder)/ Dining rooms in Welfare Block/oversize

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

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