Peter Chanel School, Otaki, New Zealand

Otaki (#nzstone6)

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Peter Chanel School:

A broken half of a 4ft 2in diameter single piece stone, plus a metal pulley diameter 6ft 4in, both from the Pukekaraka mill, made into a memorial. There are other bits of dressed millstone partly buried at the back of the monument, but it's not clear their provenance - they do not obviously form the missing half of the main stone.

See Otaki Historical Society's Historical Journal, Vol 8 p22. Other info on mill in Vol 3 p67, Vol 31 p4 and photo

Signboard says:

This wheel and stone were once part of the Pukekaraka flour mill erected about 1854 under the direction of Father Comte s.m. The mill stood on the bank of the Waitohu River on property now owned by Mr Ray Taylor who donated these remains for erection on the site of the Pukekaraka Mission.
Otaki Historical Society Inc. 1985

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Jean Baptiste Comte

Peter Chanel School, Otaki, New Zealand 🌍

Otaki (#nzstone6)

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