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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27093, 30 May 1949, Page 6

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FLAX MILL BUILDINGS SOUTH CANTERBURY TO WINTON The Sunday silence in Dunedin was disturbed at about 4.15 p.m. yesterday when a large truck carrying a bathroom and a washhouse and towing a trailer on which was a three-roomed cottage, rumbled slowly along Lower High street. The cottage was one of some buildings which are at present being transported from the Makikihi flaxmill to the Winton fiaxmill. Makikihi is a small town 18 miles south of Timaru. A truck owned by an Ashburton firm of carriers, which had been speciallv strengthened by the army during the war for use as a tank carrier, and which can carry a load of up to 20 tons, was used. In a telephone conversation with the Daily Times, Mr R. A. Burnett, managing director of the firm, told the Daily Times that his firm specialised in the carrying of buildings, the truck having been used for the purpose for the past five years. The men driving the truck also specialised in this type of work. The largest house shifted had measured 42ft by 22ft, and although the firm had not done much carrying in the Dunedin district, it had once taken some loads from Lawrence to the hydro works at Waipori. The truck had not reached Winton when the Daily Times rang at 9.45 last night.