The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
The Colac Bay Flax Mill
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.