Homewoods, Kaikora, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand 🌍

Kaikora, Hawkes Bay (#nz69)

It's certainly possible to read this multiple ways, but one reading is that there was a windmill at Homewoods in the 1850s: Bush Advocate, Volume II, Issue 153, 2 May 1889

THIRTY YEARS AGO.
(By Mohoao.)
In 1857 this was part of the Wellington province, and though contributing its fair share to the expenditure had received nothing in return, the money being all spent in making roads around that village, for it was only a village then. ... The Maoris were the chief farmers here then, and the supply of potatoes was obtained from them, as also pumpkins and marrows, maize and wheat. At some places the wheat was all that could be got in the way of breadstuff, and was ground in a handmill; but at some of the stations a windmill was made to do the grinding. There was one of these mills at the "Homewoods" station at Kaikora. The labour of grinding the wheat was so heavy that at one or two of the stations on the coast where travellers frequently called for a free supper, bed, and breakfast the notice "Grind or go on," was put up, meaning that travellers must grind as much flour as they consumed.

Homewoods was a 5140 hectare sheep farming estate owned by Mr Henry Stokes Tiffen, near present day Otane.