Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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The Colac Bay Flax Mill (A. S. Otway and Co., Invercargill, proprietors), Colac. This mill is completely equipped and possesses a twelve horse-power portable engine (Robey), one of the New Zealand Engineering Company's double drive strippers, and the usual plant, including a three-men scutcher. Fibre from the Waiau mill, which is owned by the same firm, is scutched here, and there is an up-to-date baling press, driven by steam. About eighteen persons are employed at the mill, as well as two carters and six flax-cutters.