Howick, New Zealand 🌍

Howick (#nz54)

Possibly a wind engine, though the date is still early for such a device, this was offered for sale in 1858: Daily Southern Cross, Volume XV, Issue 1195, 10 December 1858

Land Sale
HARDINGTON & WOOD Will sell by auction, in the Bazaar Rooms, on Thursday next, the 16th instant, at twelve o'clock, THE following PROPERTIES, -
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Howick — 1 Acre being Lot 232, with frontage to Abercrombie Street of 191 links. It has a Windmill upon it, and is irrigated by a streamlet

The sale was "postponed in consequence of the inclemency of the weather" till Dec 23rd. (Daily Southern Cross, Volume XV, Issue 1198, 21 December 1858)

In April 1860 (ie. after the sale), John William White was recorded on the electoral roll as holding lot 232.