Victoria, New Plymouth, New Zealand 🌍

New Plymouth (#nz1535)

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 27, 12 April 1845

TARANAKI.
In a former article on the Statistics of the Colony, we mentioned that the Floor Mills now built, or in progress, in Port Nicholson, were the only Mills in the Settlement. We are happy to correct our previous impression on the authority of Mr. Varnham, a respectable settler of New Plymouth, by stating that two Water Mills have been recently erected in that district which are now at work. They are both within the limits of the town as laid out by the surveyors of the New Zealand Company, and are within the block of the three thousand acres to which the settlers have been recently restricted by the Governor, they are both situated on the same stream, the Natoki, which takes its rise from Mount Egmont, and is about ten yards wide. The Mill belonging to Messrs. White and Gillingham (which has been most recently erected) is turned by a breast wheel about twenty four feet in diameter, and is furnished with two pair French Burrs: the whole of the machinery was brought out from England.