"flax-stick" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1869, W. Lauder Lindsay, On the Economical Value and Applications of the Leaf-Fibre of New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax, Forst.): The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, volume 7, page 46:",
          "text": "Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable.",
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        "The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum)."
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        "(New Zealand) The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum)."
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          "text": "\"I always thought Australia was all good country,\" mused the driver—a flax-stick.",
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        "A New Zealander."
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        "(Australia, slang, obsolete) A New Zealander."
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