auctioneer's advertisements, Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland (#nz63)

auctioneer's advertisements: unspecified:

Date: 1858

Alfred Buckland started out as a farmer, but (perhaps after selling his own items) moved to conducting auctions and sales for others.

Thrashing machine and flour mill

He is first linked with a mill in this ad: Daily Southern Cross, Volume XII, Issue 811, 6 April 1855, Page 2

Newmarket Cattle Sale.
MR. J. NEWMAN Will Sell by Auction, at Newmarket, on Tuesday, the 10th inst., at 11 o'clock, -
A CHOICE LOT of FAT CATTLE, and a number of STORE STOCK.
Also - A Two-horse power Thrashing Machine, with Flour Mill attached; all in good working trim. Also, a Winnowing Machine. To be sold in one lot; they can be seen prior to the sale, at Mr. A. Buckland's, Otahuhu.

Buckland then joined with Joseph Newman, who had been the agent advertising the mill: New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 978, 29 August 1855, Page 1

THE undersigned begs to announce to the Public that his business in future will be carried on under the firm of Newman and Buckland. With this arrangement he hopes to promote the interest of his employers by giving increased attention to private sales both of Land and Horses, as well as holding more frequent Public Sales, which the increased prosperity of the Province now appears to call for.
Joseph Newman, Auctioneer and Land Agent. Remuera, 21st August, 1855.

Later that same year, the firm is again offering dairy cows for sale, together what is presumably the same thrashing machine and flour mill, with no specific power source mentioned: Daily Southern Cross, Volume XII, Issue 887, 28 December 1855, Page 2

Dairy Cows For Sale.
NEWMAN & BUCKLAND
Will sell Without Reserve, on Tuesday, January 15th, 1856, at Newmarket, by 11 o'clock,
THE entire herd of (25 to 30) Dairy Cattle, the property of Mr. Alfred Buckland.
They are many of them in full milk, have been selected with care, are nearly all young Cows and remarkably quiet, presenting a good opportunity for acquiring real good quiet Milking Cattle, together with
A Thrashing Machine
Winnowing Machine, and
Scarifier, all in good working order Also,
A Flour Mill, can be used with any motive power, and is well calculated for a bush farm.
Terms, approved bills at three months, bearing interest.

Windmill for private sale

Three years later Buckland on his own offered a windmill for private sale, which by the capabilities given in the ad, seems to be a small mill, and presumably fairly portable, since no location is given. There is a possibility that this is the same flour mill as before, turned into a wind driven device: New Zealander, Volume XIV, Issue 1261, 19 May 1858

FLOUR MILL.
FOR PRIVATE SALE, at a low figure, a WINDMILL complete, and but little used, will grind one bushel per hour, and is well adapted for a country district.
Apply to Alfred Buckland.

A subsequent version of the ad a couple of days later had "one bag" substituted instead of "one bushel": Daily Southern Cross, Volume XV, Issue 1137, 21 May 1858

FLOUR MILL.
FOR PRIVATE SALE, at a low figure, a WINDMILL complete, and but little used, will grind one bag per hour, and is well adapted for a country district.
Apply to Alfred Buckland.

and a further rewrite within a week upped that to 4 bushels - maybe the mill was larger than it first seemed, or it may just be salesman's exageration: New Zealander, Volume XIV, Issue 1263, 26 May 1858, Page 4

FLOUR MILL.
FOR PRIVATE SALE, at a low figure, a WINDMILL complete, and but little used, will grind 4 bushels per hour, and is well adapted for a country district.
Apply to Alfred Buckland.

Windmill parts

A later sale in September that year also listed windmill parts - whether that was the same mill reduced to more manageable pieces is unclear New Zealander, Volume XIV, Issue 1296, 18 September 1858, Page 2

Sale of Agricultural Implements &c.
MR. ALFRED BUCKLAND
Will sell by auction, at his Yards, Newmarket, on Friday next, 24th instant, at 12 o’clock,
1 HAND THRASHING MACHINE
1 chaff cutter
1 hand field rake
1 sack barrow
1 sack holder
1 improved Scotch Plough, with extra mould boards and shares
1 set heavy harrows
1 set light harrows
2 American cradling scythes
1 light field roller
1 Clarke’s universal plough, with broad share and scarifier
1 large churn
Iron work and materials for a Windmill
A quantity of Rape Seed, grown in the Colony
A lot of bags
etc., etc., etc.

Gear of a windmill

Almost 30 years later Buckland was still in the auction business, and ran another ad that mentions a windmill, though by that time it might have been referring to a wind engine: New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7304, 16 April 1885

TO-MORROW. THE HAY MARKET, For sale, on Friday next (from Wanganui),
1 PAIR UPSTANDING CHESTNUT HORSES; good in single or double harness
6 Good Horses, accustomed to single and double harness
5 Good Pony Hacks
Also, Gear of a Windmill
ALFRED BUCKLAND.

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