Belvedere Steam Mills, Wairarapa, New Zealand 🌍


Wairarapa (#nz2118)

Belvedere Steam Mills:

Built in 1870 as an addition to the existing Belvedere Steam Saw Mill.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume V, Issue 305, 19 April 1871

BELVEDERE STEAM FLOUR MILLS.
The undersigned having erected a FLOUR MILL, and having machinery on the most improved principles, is prepared to grind grist with despatch. A Stock of Silk-dressed Flour always on hand. Storekeepers and Bakers supplied. T. HOOKER. Belvedere Mills, July 15, 1870

Wairarapa Standard, Volume V, Issue 347, 11 October 1871

BELVEDERE STEAM SAW AND FLOUR MILLS.
[established 1865.]
LARGE STOCK of TIMBER and SILK-DRESSED FLOUR always on hand. All Orders executed and delivered with despatch.
AGENTS: H. Bannister, Masterton. E. W. Mills, Lion Foundry, Wellington.
The undersigned has great pleasure in being able to announce to the Wairarapa settlers that he has just received from England a PATENT SMUT MACHINE AND SEPARATOR, And that he is now prepared to grind all grist at NINE PENCE PER BUSHEL. The undersigned being determined to stop by low prices, the influx of flour over the Rimutaka, and trusts by strict and prompt attention to business to merit a continuance of the liberal patronage which has hitherto been accorded to him. N.B. —The highest market price given for wheat.
Thomas Hooker
October 2, 1871

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