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mīhini miraka kau

1. (loan) (noun) milking machine.

Nō te tau 1917 i tīmata tana mahi, e hia tau kē nei te roa, i te tari o ngā huānga o tōna pāpā, o Mason rāua ko Struthers mā i te wāhanga whakaterāwhiti o te tiriti o Custom i Ākarana, he kamupene mātanga, he hanga mīhini miraka kau nei te mahi (TTR 2000:259). / In 1917 she began her long working career in the offices of her father’s relatives, Mason, Struthers and Company, in Custom Street East, Auckland, specialists in making machines.

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Synonyms: mīhini kutētē kau

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