Author: Pollard, Jane.
Title: A Mingled Yarn: The Seifert Family and Flaxmilling in New Zealand.
Description: Bowral, NSW Self-Published: Jane Pollard, 2004. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, black & white photos, top corner front cover & first few pages little creased, autograph (author's written name title page). 159 pp. Jane Pollard relates the story of a family who milled flax from Southland to the Waikato in New Zealand. The author is the great-granddaughter of Johann Herrmann Seifert. Using personal letters, diaries, and business correspondence, plus wages books and cutter's tallies from several of his mills, this book traces the flax industry, and the men who worked it, through the turbulent years of two Depressions and two World Wars, and the mingled fortunes of those times. ISBN: 064644025X

Keywords: biography, rural, agriculture, farming, flax, business, milling, flaxmilling, history, diaries, pacific, new zealand, autograph 064644025X


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