Flax Industry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Flax mill houses for staff families at Tapanui
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00310009
Dates:
1943
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Flax mill houses for staff families at Tapanui, 1943
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00310009
Dates:
1943
Flax mill housing at Tapanui
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00310008
Dates:
1943
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Irene and fellow single women flax mill workers
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00310013
Dates:
1944
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Irene and fellow single women flax mill workers, 1944
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00310013
Overview
Irene is 3rd from the right, front row.
Dates:
1944
KENNEDY Irene Margaret interviewed by Joy Lietze
Record Group — Box 22
Identifier: H0031
Overview
This interview covers Irene's early life in Browns and her time in the Women's War Service Auxiliary working in a flax mill in Tapanui. After the war she remained in Tapanui and worked first in the hospital and then in the Post Office where she worked as the local postie for 18 years. Irene was very keen on fishing, she fished actively for over 50 years and enjoyed meeting interesting people along the riverbank. Irene was Area Representative for Student Travel Schools.
Dates:
2010
Linen Flax Mill at Tapanui (Blue Mountains in the background)
Digital Image
Identifier: DH00310010
Dates:
c.1943
Found in:
Southland Oral History Project
Linen Flax Mill at Tapanui (Blue Mountains in the background), 1940s
Item — Digital-archive SOHP
Identifier: H00310010
Dates:
1940s
