Flour mills
The cause of the infamous libel case, which bankrupted Joseph Partington.
A history and description of Partington's Windmill in Symonds St, Auckland
"This booklet was written as a history project when the author was a teacher trainee at the Auckland Teachers' College, Epsom"
Don't be misled by the cover - that's a lime kiln not a windmill tower! Has a major chapter on flour milling, and other relevant material in saw milling and mining chapters.
This 20 page cheaply produced A4 sized publication, subtitled "windmills for home, farm, and cottage industry" contains mostly cartoon like diagrams with handwritten and typeset text. The mills photographed on the front and rear covers, and shown via hand drawn illustrations inside, are ones that the author (a boatbuilder by trade) built on his Coromandel property, to support his off-grid lifestyle.
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16 page booklet
11 pages
The story of Wood's windmill, on its move from Christchurch to Leithfield.
64 pages
[link]Available at Alexander Turnbull Library.
Also issued a series of "cigarette" cards: Tales from Maoriland
Industry history
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The main subject matter of this book is threshing mills and traction engines. It contains just a short (2 page) appendix on flour mills.
Children's story set in Partington's mill, Auckland. 76 pages. Limited edition of 500 copies.
"This book contains basically fairy tale nursery-rhymes set in gaunt ten storey building" --Back cover.
Effectively just a selection of the best bits of Ian Jonson's research, scanned and arranged in a spiral bound book form.
I doubt that this A4 sized book was ever published, but photocopied versions of it have made their way into various libraries and archives, including alongside Ian Jonson's papers at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
A series of 20 chapters on various heritage buildings that are no longer around. Includes Partington's Mill, Auckland, and with oblique milling connection the Edmonds Sure To Rise factory in Christchurch.
Self published, photocopied book, that simply draws on much of Ian Jonson's research material
Copies found at the National Library, and at Foxton windmill
Non-flour mills
History and record of the names and sites of all sawmills that have worked in Tuatapere and outlying districts from 1870’s to the mid 1990’s. 173p, maps, 30cms, spiral binding.
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188p, illus and map. 22cms, paper covers
[link]Ian Jonson's unpublished research notes, held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
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