Possibly the first windmill in New Zealand, built 1843 by a pair of gentlemen merchants named Hoggard and Simonds (though the spelling varies, sometimes with two "m"s, and/or omitting the "d").
The mill body carried the 4 sails, and had a tailpole to allow it to be turned to face the wind, but the mill's single pair of stones was actually in a separate building. Several illustrations show the cross-framing of the smock tower as being externally visible, though it's not clear if the tower was a skeleton, or whether there was boarding inside the framing (or indeed whether the illustrations, both by S C Brees, were simply made of the mill before external boarding had been added).
The last references to the mill are in the early 1850's, and by the mid 1850's descriptions of the property pointedly do not mention the mill, so it can be assumed to have disappeared by then.
CUSTOM HOUSE.They soon set themselves up as merchants, dealing in imported goods such as meat and alcohol that had come with them on the same ship: New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume III, Issue 167, 13 August 1842
IMPORTS.
In the "Indemnity," from London. - Waitt and Co., Agents. - ... 2 packages ironmongery, ... 3 packages door frames, ... 1 box sheet glass, 4 cases machinery, ... 312 bars iron, 28 bundles iron, 1 parcel screws, 2 cases machinery, 41 packages do., 26 do. do., 23 packages barley meal, ... 4 lumps stone, 1 case ironmongery, ... 8 barrels flour, ... 1 fire-engine in case, ... 2 packages ironmongery, ... 56 cases window glass,... Passengers — H. Dowsland, W. Simmonds, L. Simmonds, T. Haggard, O. Millward, W. Walkenshaw, and H. Barltrop. Intermediate — J. Hutton, J. Stewart, G. Arlken, G. Macer, R. Duncan, A. Retty, A. Betts, and J. Colman.
FOR SALE, ex Indemnity, from London, by the undersigned : — Salmon, Turkeys, Fowls, Ducks, Beef, Mutton, Mock turtle, Ox tongues, Calves head, Calves feet, Lobsters. } All on Goldney's highly improved principle, with the bone in.
Also a quantity of wines and spirits in three dozen cases, of superior quality — Hock, Champagne, Old port, Sherry, Hollands, Brandy, Eau de Cologne, Iron of sizes calculated for shoeing, round and square.
Simonds and Hoggard. Lambton-quay, Wellington, August 8, 1842.
Messrs. Simmons and Hoggard, have been for some time past erecting a Windmill, on Te Aro Flat, and we trust we shall soon be enabled to report its being ready for use. This Mill, will be the first of the kind in the Colony, and therefore, a curiosity and we doubt not will thoroughly astonish the Natives.Edward Wakefield's book a couple of years later also flagged it as being the first windmill in the colony: Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844: With Some Account of the Beginning of the British Colonization of the Islands, Volume 2, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, J. Murray, 1845
At this time, the first windmill in the colony was advancing towards completion at Te Aro; and several tanneries were busily at work near the town. The tanners found both the bark of the hinau from which the natives get their dye and the bark of the towai or black birch highly suited to their purposes.The mill was certainly the first reported windmill in the colony, and the first purpose built mill powered by the wind, though it's possible that it was not the first use of wind power for milling, it was probably preceeded by a number of enterprising pioneers who rigged up a way to power their hand mills by the wind.
Te Aro Windmill.A further write up appeared in New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume V, Issue 341, 24 April 1844, Page 2
MESSRS. SIMONS AND HOGGARD beg to inform the public of Wellington and its vicinity, that their Mill is now completed, and that they are prepared to receive into store any quantity of wheat, which will be ground on moderate terms.
Wellington, April 10, 1844.
WIND MILL.The mill had a single pair of stones, as mentioned in the convenient summary of Wellington's flour milling capacity given in New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 19, 15 February 1845, Page 2
To Messrs. Simmond's and Hoggard the credit of establishing the first Wind Mill in this part, if not in any part, of New Zealand is due. Their Mill is erected on Te Aro Flat, and has now been in operation some days. The difficulty with which they have to contend is the inequality of wind. At certain seasons of the year the wind in this harbour alternates suddenly and every few minutes between great strength and almost calm; but this inequality is we believe peculiar to spots surrounded by hilly country. At Otaki, Manawatu, New Plymouth, and the East Coast, it will be found the wind is a steady power.
There are three Mills for grinding corn in Port Nicholson, - a steam mill, and a windmill, each with one pair of stones, in Wellington, and Mr. Ludlam's new windmill in the valley of the Hutt, which is furnished with two pair of stones. A fourth mill, with two pair of stones, to be moved by water power is in progress of erection by Messrs. Mathieson and Shultze, Kai Warra, which will be ready for grinding in four months. These are the only flour mills in the settlement, so that all the corn not ground by hand mills for private consumption, must be brought to Port Nicholson to be converted into flour.
TE ARO WINDMILL.The windmill was not the only flour mill in Te Aro: Wellington Independent, 12 April 1845
THE repairs to the above being now completed, the Undersigned are prepared to receive into store, wheat for grinding. All particulars, as also the scale of charges, may be obtained by application at the mill.
SIMOND AND HOGGARD. Wellington, March 7, 1845.
Messrs. Simmons and Hoggard have a flour mill driven by wind, and Mr. Catchpool a timber and flour mill which is worked by steam. Both these mills are on Te Aro flat.The partners continued their general merchant business, selling both the outputs from the mill, and also other products: Wellington Independent, Issue 35, 30 July 1845
On Sale by the undersigned,Where there is a mill, often there is grain aplenty, and it was probably advantageous to keep birds to be fattened up: New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 64, 27 December 1845
FLOUR,
Bran,
Sharps,
Barley for pigs and poultry,
A few kegs of superior tobacco,
1200 Van Diemen's Land palings,
Simond's stout,
Dunbar's ale.
XX in hogsheads,
Barley meal, 3s. 6d. per bushel,
Best Taranaki pork,
Best Taranaki lard,
Oats,
SIMONDS AND HOGGARD. July 22, 1845.
TEN SHILLINGS REWARD. STRAYED from Te Aro Mill, 5 Geese, all with the left wing cut, whoever finds the same shall receive the above reward. T. H. HOGGARD Dec. 26, 1845.The mill was on the path to Mount Albert, as related in the story from 1846, told years later New Zealander, Volume XIX, Issue 1842, 11 April 1863, Page 3
... Wellington and Auckland are nearly coeval; and my first acquaintance with both is almost of equal date; having arrived in the latter on the 28th January, and at the former on the 10th February, 1846. My stay at Wellington, at that period, was of several months' duration; my opportunities of travel were considerable ... I have spoken of the signal station on Mount Albert. It is of considerable altitude and some distance from town, but the magnificent prospect from its summit will amply repay the toil of the ascent. It was a lovely morning that I first wended my way thither, crossing Te Aro flats by the wind mill, and working upwards to Mount Victoria, that part of the range which immediately overlooks the city. From that elevation, the scenic effects are superb; hill, dale, and water are spread out in infinite variety and majesty. Wellington is completely commanded from this sublime birdseve view; the full extent of the valley of the Hutt, with its clustering tiers of lordly mountains, lies open to your ken. Evans' Bay, with the adjacent sheet of Burnham water, glanced blue and beautiful in the glorious sunlight; whilst, harbour-wards, the towering spars and square yards of the men-of-war appeared to be diminished to mere whip-sticks. It was, truly, a heavenly day. A gentle zephyr fanned our glowing faces. Light, gauzy, clouds danced joyously across the blue of ether. Mysterious shadows flitted in strange, fantastic, masses amid the fissured slopes of the gigantic mountains, subduing the heart and imagination to dreamy listnessness. It was a day - (and even, after the lapse of seventeen years, I can vividly recall my sentiments and impressions) - such as sublimises the feelings of the susceptible, and leads them to pour forth their gratitude to their beneficent Father who has furnished so many and such refined enjoyments.The same recollections also mention the windmill in the Hutt Valley:
The Hutt is a very pretty fresh water stream, under ordinary circumstances of moderate dimension. It was, then, spanned by a wooden bridge, with a stockade on the further side, garrisoned by a detachment of the 58th regiment under Lieut. Bush. There were several beautiful farms, villas, a windmill, and a good hotel in this immediate neighbourhood. It has since been much more extensively cleared, and has now a much more numerous and thriving population.There is also a curious mention of another mill, whose location is unclear:
The first spot I visited (in quest of wild fowl) was Evans' Bay, an extensive deep water inlet, close to the harbour, and in which a Patent slip is now about to be laid down. Passing amid the range of mountains that trend towards the South-east, and of which Mount Victoria constitutes one of the most prominent points, after a good deal of fatigue, I and our valiant Captain gained the summit of one of these rugged acclivities. The prospect was extremely grand, and as the day—in the parlance of the then Superintendent—was quite a pet one for Wellington, we beheld the romantic beauty of the panorama, spread at our feet, in the highest degree of perfection. On one hand lay the lake-like harbour of Wellington, girdled by an endless succession of peaky, fissured, mountains, twisted into every conceivable diversity of form, and extending far away on every hand, their craggy sides pierced deeply in several places, by flashing blades of bright blue water; whilst, seaward, their fern-clad steeps rushed abruptly downwards to breast the restless surges of the mighty ocean. On such a day, and with an atmosphere so serene and pure, both sense and imagination ran riot amidst the glorious scenery. On our return to town, we paused to contemplate a double-actioned mill, the wind serving to raise the water required to set the wheel in motion.
POLICE OFFICE. June 26, 1846. Before H. St. Hill, Esq., P. M.The trial duly came up before the Supreme Court: New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 115, 5 September 1846Hodges, a private of the 99th Regt., was charged with having committed a rape on the person of Ann Cording, on Tuesday evening, the 23d ult.
Ann Cording deposed that she was a widow, and housekeeper to Mr. Brandon; on Tuesday evening last, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, she was returning from the house of Mr. Blathwayt, beyond Te Aro; when she arrived near the gaol at Wellington she lost her way, and sat down on some flax bushes thinking that some person would pass that way; soon afterwards she heard voices, and then called out Police; a man came up and offered his arm, and when about twenty yards on the road to Wellington, he asked her if she had any money; she told him that any thing he might demand for putting her on the right road, if he would call the next day at Mr. Brandon's he should be paid; he then knocked her down, and put his knee upon her breast and drew from his side a bayonet, and told her if she called out he would kill her; and then accomplished his purpose. She was then dragged to the flax swamp knee deep and left there; she lost her shoes, and with great difficulty reached the windmill, where she met with every attention from Mr. Hoggard.
Corporal Graham and other witnesses corroborated the evidence of the complainant, and proved that the prisoner was the person who had committed the outrage.
The prisoner made no defence, and was fully committed to take his trial at the next Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court.
SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. Tuesday, September 1, 1846. Before Mr. Justice Chapman.Although clearly residing at the mill, Hoggard still regarded himself primarily as a merchant as far as the Jury List was concerned. Simonds' name does not appear on the list. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume III, Issue 160, 10 February 1847, Page 1 (Supplement)
Henry Hodges, private 99th regiment, was indicted for a rape on Ann Cording.
Mr. Brandon, for prosecutrix, stated that the evidence would consist of that of the prosecutrix; of one person who could state the state of the prosecutrix; and another person who could prove that the prisoner was the person committing the offence.
Ann Cording — I am a widow; I remember the night of 23d June; on that evening I went over to Mr. Blathwayt's; on coming home, I mistook my path, and got into the swamp; Mr. Blathwayt's is at the back of the gaol; I was afraid of getting further into the swamp, and I sat down thinking that some of the police would be at the gaol, and come by and put me on the road to Wellington; I sat some time before any one came to my assistance; when I heard voices, I called Police four times; some one answered, what do you want? some little time after a soldier came up, and asked me what I was doing there; I told him I had mistaken my road, and requested him to put me on my road to Wellington; he said you are drunk, I said I am not drunk; I told him I had been ill, and was very ill at the time; and had my arm in a sling at the time; I had had blisters on my arm; I told him I had nothing to drink but a glass of cold brandy and water at Mr. Blathwayt's, and if he would put me on the right road to Wellington, I would pay him any thing he might require for his trouble, if he came to Mr. Brandon's on Thorndon Flat the following day; he went with me a little distance, and then stopped short and said, have you no money about you? I told him I had not; he then put some questions to me in language I did not understand; he pulled me down, and said he would pay himself; I called out, and he said, if did not hold my tongue he would take my life; I called upon him not to misuse me, but to consider my age, and think of his mother and wife if he had one; he knelt me down with his knees, and one hand on my breast; he accomplished his purpose, and he then pulled me up; (witness proved the commission of the offence); he led me along above twenty yards; I lost my shoe, and I asked him to allow me time to pick it up, but he would not; he pointed out to the beach, and said, do you see those lights? and I said I did; he said, that is the beach, you must fight your way, or else I shall lose my guard; I called out Buckeridge, my son-in-law; I got out against Mr. Hort's old store; I could not get over the gully there; I found the hysterics coming on, and I went to Mr. Hoggard's mill, knowing I should get assistance; when I was in the swamp the bugle was blowing; I consider it was about nine o'clock; it was very dark when I lost my way; I sat till I was numbed with cold before I heard voices; I did not retain my consciousness the whole time prisoner effected his purpose; I cannot say which way he went afterwards; he appeared to go back the same way he came; I had been under the doctor's hands for some weeks before this; I had taken a glass of cold brandy and water, it might have made me feel poorly, not being accustomed to take any; I had my senses perfectly at the time; I appealed to him to think of his mother, and not use me ill in my old age; on my going towards the mill, I called for assistance, and Mr. Hoggard came and took me to the mill; I staid on the Tuesday night until the Thursday; I was too ill to get home; the party who assaulted me had a large coat on, a soldier's coat, I could not see any other part of his dress; the prisoner is the man; I had not seen him previously; I heard prisoner speak at the police office, and I knew him there by his voice; I only swear to him from his voice.
By the Prisoner — It was between eight and nine o'clock on the night of 23d June; I told you, in answer to your question what I was doing, that I had been to a gentleman's house with some fish; I left that house about six; I arrived at the mill between nine and ten; I did not see your bayonet; I promised to give you money if you called the next day at Mr. Brandon's (the prisoner by his cross-examination of the witness the more completely established the case against him); you threatened me, and that was sufficient to prevent me calling for assistance; I had only one glass of brandy and water.
Cross-examined — If I take brandy it brings on spasms; I was perfectly in my senses at the time.
William Watt, in the militia — I remember the evening of the 23d June last; I was on duty at the gaol; I went on duty about nine in the morning; I walked sentry; I went on at eight in the evening at the magazine; the sentries were doubled at that time; I know the prisoner, he went sentry with me; about nine o'clock I heard a woman cry, she called several times; the prisoner went to her; he was absent about half an hour, when he came back he said it was some old lady who was living with a gentleman; he told me he had put her on the road; some other person passed along the road about a quarter of an hour after towards the town; he had something that clattered like milk cans.
By the Prisoner - The woman called out six or seven times before you went to the woman's assistance; I heard her say that she had been to some person's house with some fish, and that she had had a glass of brandy and water; I heard no noise whilst you were away; you were away about half an hour; it was a very calm night, I must have heard any one calling; you were dirty about the legs when you came back; I heard you go through the flax.
Cross-examined - The flax is high; I could hear people talking on Te Aro Flat towards the town; I think I should have heard any one calling out; the mud was about halfway up his legs, it was not up to his knees; when we are on sentry we walk backwards and forwards; I was walking on the side next the lower road, the beat was about ten or fifteen yards.
Thomas William Hoggard - I am a merchant; I met the prosecutrix about a quarter past ten; she appeared much excited; she said she had been violated by a soldier; her dress was muddy; she bore indications of having been thrown down; she was too ill to go home that night; she remained the next day.
Cross-examined - I knew the woman; she was very much excited; she came to the mill about a quarter to ten; she said that a soldier had ill treated her near the gaol.
James Ward, for the prisoner - I am a militiaman; I went on duty at the magazine at six in the evening, and went off at eight; after I bad been on sentry half an hour, I heard some person vomiting.
Cross-examined - Prisoner came off sentry at ten o'clock.
Corporal Graham, 99th regt. - I recollect 23d June when the occurrence took place, I received the prisoner at 10 o'clock, I planted him at 8 o'clock; the prisoner stated when he came off, to account for his being muddy, that he had assisted a drunken woman, and had put her on the way to Wellington, and because he would not assist her all the way she had blackguarded him; there were none of my guard out of the gaol during the day or night.
Verdict Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy.
The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life. The Court adjourned till to-morrow morning.
List of all persons qualified to serve as Jurors for the District of Port Nicholson, for the year, 1847.
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Hoggard, Thomas William, Te Aro flat, merchant
Further back from the beach, numerous houses, of various size and construction, including a Windmill for grinding flour, a Steam flour and sawing mill, a Brewery and two or three Hotels and Taverns, are dotted over Te Aro Flat, the hollow between the bare eastern ridge, of which Mounts Victoria and Albert are peaks, and the wooded spurs of the hills which close the view to the south-west.and the same book later puts more exact figures on the types of buildings:
XIII. - Buildings in town (end of 1845)
Brick Houses 50
Wooden Do. 417
Clay Do. 218
Stores (mostly brick) 38
Public Houses 13
Buildings not included in the above account:- Six places of Public Worship (two of brick), one Gaol (brick), one Bank, one Custom-house, one Post office, two Barracks (one of brick) and two Flour mills (one a Windmill, and the other worked by Steam), each with one pair of stones. There is also a small Factory, with six hand-looms, for weaving the fibre of the Phormium tenax into coarse sacking, for which there is a considerable demand at Sydney, as well as on the spot. There are also several rope-walks, which work up the same material; several well managed brick kilns, and a lime-kiln; two or three small tanneries; and a candle-manufactory.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Partnership hitherto carried on by William Simonds Simonds, and Thomas William Hoggard, Merchants, Wellington, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.The mill featured obliquely in some sailing directions from June 1848: Vol 1, No 4 of The Journal of the Early Settlers and Historical Association of Wellington.
Mr. Hoggard is authorized to receive all debts and settle all accounts due to or by the said firm. Dated this 19th day of May, 1848.
William Simonds Simonds.
Thomas William Hoggard.
Witness— W. S. Loxley; Merchant, Wellington.
The sunken rock off Jerningham Point ... was first surveyed in June, 1848, by Commander Oliver, of H.M. sloop Fly, who placed a temporary buoy to mark its position, as several vessels had run on it. The commander’s sailing directions are: "By keeping a remarkable red brick house, with six windows in front, three above and three below, with a white balcony between them, to the right of a wooden house on the beach with two garret windows on each side of the roof, the first house on the beach to the right of the windmill buildings, this danger will be cleared."The mill was clearly now universally known as Hoggard's Mill: Wellington Independent, Volume IV, Issue 305, 13 September 1848, Page 2
MR. WAITT will Sell by Public Auction, immediately after the sale of Warehouses, on the 20th instant, an ACRE on Wellington Terrace, pleasantly situated.
Town Acre No. 376, situated in Roxburgh Street, near Mr. Hoggard's Mill. The land, which is nearly level, is in a dry and sheltered situation, and is admirably adapted for a place of residence.
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Wellington, September 5, 1848.
The caption for the picture of the windmill from S. C. Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand published in 1849 makes it clear that the millstones were not inside the windmill itself, but were in an adjacent building. Indeed the image shows the mill framing was visible (though that may have been due to final weatherboarding not yet being added when the painting was made), with a braced tailpole for winding.
50. --MOUNT VICTORIA, WELLINGTON.The distant view of the mill in the same publication, in the background of the image titled The Exchange, Wellington, is again specifically mentioned in the caption, but this could almost be a different mill. Although only a small image, deep in the scene, this appears to show a solid walled mill, with something protruding from the cap, which could suggest a fantail. This may just be artistic licence, or perhaps the appearance of the mill did change from the open framework it was first built as, though since S C Brees left New Zealand in 1845 that only gives 2 years after the building of the mill.
There are four mills for grinding corn in Port Nicholson--viz., Mr. Catchpool's steam-mill, which was taken to the Colony by Dr. Evans, and at work so early as October, 1841; Messrs. Simmons and Hoggart's windmill, which is represented in the View, each with one pair of stones; Mr. Molesworth's new windmill in the valley of the Hutt carries two pair; the fourth, near the mouth of the Kai-Warra-Warra stream, also has two pair, turned by water power, and the works have been recently completed by the proprietors, Messrs. Mathieson and Schultze.
Messrs. Simmons and Hoggart's motive power is the wind, but the motion is conveyed to another building, where the mill-stones are fitted up. A road is formed up to the top of Mount Victoria and to Evans' Bay. The cottage shown at the foot of the hill, called Victoria Cottage, is the farm residence of Wm. Fitzherbert, Esq. The flax-plant luxuriates about this locality, and is represented near the foreground.
The same advertisement kept appearing for at least 4 months, so it's unclear when or indeed if Hoggard was able to sell any of his properties. A later sales advertisement does not mention the seller's name: Wellington Independent, Volume VII, Issue 663, 18 February 1852, Page 2TO BE SOLD,
TOWN ACRE, No. 307, situated on Te Aro Flat, with the Windmill, Dwelling House, Out-Houses, and 100 Acres Country Land, No. 18, District of Ohario. Also, Town Acre, No. 148, on Thorndon Flat, with a double frontage to Hawkstone and Molesworth Streets. Also Town Acres, Nos. 847, 892, 1032, 1033, and the Country Sections to same; No. 72 Orawanua, Nos. 239 and 365 Manawatu, No. 145. Upper Hutt. Also 10 Acres cleared land, situated in the Ohairo, close to Mr. Symons' Farm, laid out for a Paddock, and Leased at £50 per annum for Seven Years, of which Four have yet to run.Also, Two Acres of Land upon the Karori Road, with a good Weather-boarded House.
Apply to T. W. HOGGARD.
Te Aro Windmill,
Aug. 22, 1849
SALES BY AUCTIONAt the time of his death in 1862, Hoggard was still recorded as living in Kent-terrace, which was the general area by the windmill.
THIS DAY. THIRD SERIES OF LAND SALES.
Important Sale of Town and Country Lands.
MR. JAMES SMITH Has received instructions to submit to Public Auction, On WEDNESDAY, the 18th inst. at his auction mart, PLIMMER'S WHARF. The following valuable Freehold Properties, viz,:
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Town Acre 307, Kent-terrace, with the dewlling house, Mill, and other Buildings thereon, known as the Te Aro wind-mill. This is a most valuable section, and can also be made a most profitable investment - there is en excellent well of water on the acre.
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Also several other valuable freehold properties, plans and specifications of which will be on shew in a few days at the Office of the Auctioneer.
Lunch at 12 o'clock.
TERMS LIBERAL.
Plimmer's Wharf, February 10, 1852.
There continue to be mentions of the windmill in the next few months and years, though nothing confirming that it was still actively milling: Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 545, 1 January 1851
By an advertisement in to-day's paper, it will be seen that Mr. Masters purposes making a private road to Oriental Bay, for the convenience of ladies wishing to enjoy the luxuries of the bath. It is intended to take the road round by the windmill, to avoid the beach between Te Aro and Oriental Bay; leaving that part for the gentlemen. The sum required for the performance of this desirable object is said to be very small, and we should therefore think that there would be very little difficulty in realising the amount, if it were only amongst the ladies themselves.(The ad itself that is being referred to does not mention the windmill explicitly - that appears to be a refinement added by the editor when writing his comment): Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 545, 1 January 1851
To the Lovers of Bathing. - AT the suggestion of some Ladies who find some inconvenience and interruption for want of a convenient place, I purpose to receive a small Subscription from Gentlemen Bathers, to be expended in making a path over the hill leading to and from Oriental Bay, and, should sufficient funds be obtained, to put up a Boundary Post, and erect a Dressing Shed - the Shed and Dresses might be under the charge of some of the Females residing there; this will prevent all inconvenience to those of the Fair Sex who have as just a right to enjoy the luxury of a bath as the Males.Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 547, 8 January 1851, Page 3
Joseph Masters. December 31, 1850
To the Editor of the Wellington Independent. Sir, I am happy to inform you that the path over the hill leading from the wind mill into Oriental Bay, is complete, the cost of which is £4. I have £3 more in hand towards the erection of a white post as a boundary for gentlemen bathers, and a dressing shed for the ladies; £4 at the furthest will be sufficient. I trust therefore those ladies who are fond of sea bathing, will assist me, in forwarding their mites as early as possible that no delay may be occasioned in its completion. By inserting this you will greatly oblige, Your's obediently, Joseph Masters.Property near the mill: Wellington Independent, Volume VII, Issue 597, 2 July 1851
MESSRS. BETHUNE and HUNTER will sell by Auction, at the Exchange, on WEDNESDAY next, 2nd July, ... Town Acre No. 322, in Wellington, situated near the Windmill.A drowning accident near the mill: Wellington Independent, Volume VIII, Issue 756, 8 January 1853
Accident by Drowning. - On Wed-day evening last a child belonging to Mr. William Cattell of the Nag's Head Inn, Te Aro, was accidentally drowned in the stream near to Mr. Hoggard's Mill. An inquest was held on the body by Dr. Fitzgerald the Coroner, and a verdict returned accordingly.Stormy weather: Wellington Independent, Volume VIII, Issue 772, 5 March 1853
The Weather — Heavy Fall of Rain. - On Thursday evening the weather, which had during the early part of that, and the whole of the preceding day, been not only very fine but also very sultry, suddenly changed, and about 6 o'clock the rain began to fall, at first lightly, but soon afterwards very heavily, the wind blowing from the South East. During the whole of Thursday night and up to midday on Friday, the rain continued to fall without any abatement - opposite Mr. Firth's, the Aurora Tavern, the road was inundated to the depth of more than a foot, and the path itself almost impassable on account of the water. The quantity of water which had fallen during the time had the effect of bursting the swamp on Te Aro. The scene it presented was of a very novel and somewhat extraordinary character, the water rushing down in torrents and making a channel through the swamp, by washing away all that obstructed its course. Large portions of flax, grass, trees, &c, together with the bridge leading to Hoggard's Mill, were carried by the force of the torrent into the sea, and might be seen floating about the harbour in every direction. The canal which it was proposed to cut through Te Aro to the basin at the foot of Mount Cook has thus fortunately been made without assistance of Government, and the deep channel now opened will be the means of draining a considerable quantity of the land adjacent to it which has been comparatively useless for some years past.In 1857, a property for sale is advertised as being near Hoggard's property - perhaps indicating that the mill was no longer a landmark on the property: Wellington Independent, Volume X, Issue 1254, 23 December 1857, Page 2
THIS DAY.The next year, another notice again simply refers to Hoggard's property, suggesting once more that the mill no longer existed as a landmark: Wellington Independent, Volume X, Issue 1311, 1 September 1858, Page 6 (Supplement)
LAND SALE AT THE MART
Noah's Ark, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23, 1857.
Mr J. H. Wallace WILL SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
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TOWN ACRE 366 opposite the Property of T. W. Hoggard, Esq., divided into Building Allotments.
LOST,
ON Sunday last, the 23rd August, between Mr. Thomas Hoggard's and the Nag's Head, a largo VICTORINE. Whoever has found the same, and will return it to Mrs. Whebby, Oriental Bay, will be handsomely rewarded.
Aug. 27, 1858.
Mr. Thomas Hoggard, an old and well-known settler, and with his brother the first erector of a windmill in New Zealand, died last Sunday, and will be buried to-day.John Hoggard was his brother executor: Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1735, 27 June 1862, Page 2
THE ESTATE OF THOMAS WILLIAM HOGGARD, DECEASED.The announcement to remove T W Hoggard from the list of votors tells us that his previous qualification to vote was due to being a Householder - I'm not sure if that means he was not the freeholder of his property at the time of death: Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1866, 9 May 1863, Page 2
ALL persons having claims against the above Estate, are requested to furnish them to the undersigned within one month from this date.
JOHN F. HOGGARD, Executor. June 28, 1862.
THFi FOLLOWING PERSONS are objected to as not being entitled to have their names retained on the List of Voters for the Electoral District ofAs Executor, John Hoggard advertised T. W. Hoggard's Te Aro property for let, and included some details of the buildings though there is no specific mention of the windmill still existing: Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2112, 6 October 1864, Page 2
THE CITY OF WELLINGTON.
Christian and Surname of each person objected to Place of abode Nature of supposed Qualification. Ground of objection Hoggard, Thomas William Kent-terrace Household dead
TO LET.
THE HOUSE AND LAND on Te Aro Flat, the property of the late T. W. Hoggard, Esq. The house contains two sitting-rooms, five bed-rooms, kitchen, scullery, and store-room. The land consists of five acres, fenced in, and sub-divided into garden and paddocks; on the latter are cow-sheds, fowl-house, &c, &c.
Apply to MR. HOGGARD, Wellington Terrace Oct. 5, 1864.
Messrs. Simmonds & Hoggard's Mill (Mt. Victoria slopes, site of de Luxe Theatre) in the distance. The Misses. Hoggard were known as the "Maids of the Mill."I've not even found evidence that there were multiple Hoggard daughters - there are references to just a single Miss (and sometimes a Master) Hoggard in passenger lists travelling with Mr and Mrs Lipman Levy, after Hoggard's widow remarried Mr Levy. Wellington Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 2172, 25 February 1865, Page 2
The ship Wild Duck is rapidly filling up, having shipped about half her cargo, and will sail to her advertised date. Her saloon cabins are being quickly taken up, and amongst the names of intended passengers we notice, L. Levy, Esq, Mrs Levy, Miss Hoggard, Master Hoggard, ...Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXII, Issue 2809, 27 July 1866, Page 3
ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP MONARCH FROM LONDON.Wellington Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2399, 9 August 1866, Page 4
The ship Monarch, 1,444 tons, Captain Macey, made the harbour yesterday morning, after an eventful passage of 150 days from London.
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Passengers. Saloon: ... Kate Hoggard, Lipman and Sarah Levy ...
The N.Z.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Queen, Capt. Kreeft, arrived in this harbor on Tuesday morning last, from the North. ... The Queen brings a large number of passengers, amongst whom are ... Mr. and Mrs. Lipman Levy, Miss Hoggard.
There is an information board about the mill (and other aspects of Mount Victoria heritage) on the Majoribanks Street side of the Embassy Theatre. Whilst this is a perfectly reasonable place for such a board, being the nearest main thoroughfare, it somewhat perpetuates the myth first stated in "Old Wellington" that the theatre is on the site of the mill. That's not true - the mill was sited further away from the street than that, near to the junction of Levy and Lipman Streets.
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