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Dunstan Times, Issue 535, 19 July 1872, Page 2

In another portion ofonr columns -wo give from the Arrow Osberver, an interesting account of the Arrow Flour Mills, ‘recently established by those very enterprising and ingenious gentleu.cn, the Messrs. Butel. The simple fac'. that they have established

a flour mill is a matter of small interest, but our object in representing the matter is to show what can be accomplished by small metius, while the lesson may prove useful, to residents in this district.- To all appearances, the mill is not an expensive affair, but effective withal, and appears to us to be th,e very thing wanted here. The establishment of a Flour Mill on the Dunstan has, for many years been talked about, but nothing further done, while the very reverse appears to be the case at the Arrow, where*a mill has been started, and nothing said about it until it actually became an accomplished fact. The loss the* Dunstan and its neighborhood suffers by importing all its flour readymade from the Wakatipu is something serious, and it should be the first duty of our business men to prevent it. i A mill established in this neighborhood would cause the farmers to grow which they will not attempt until there exists the means for converting it into flour ; we have plenty of good wheat land, and considering our dry climate, we are much inclined to the belief that this cereal can be more profitably grown than oats Next, why not import wheat from the Wakatip, instead of flour, bran, and pollard, surely it would be much more advantageous to see the farmers loading down their grain from the Wakatip, and purchasing their stores and other necessaries in our market, than sending our money away to fill the pockets of the Wakatip millers ; such a proceeding is absurd, we can never hope to be rich while our ready money is sent away for what we should produce ourselves. It is nonsense to talk, that because there is no wheat grown at the Dunstan there is no necessity |for a flour mill ; the : proper place to convert wheat iuto flour is at the place of consumption, or, why would all the large mills exist in the great towns at home, or in Melbourne, Sydney, or Adelaide. The most central position for a flour mill on the Northern Goldfields is at the Dunstan, and to establish one is the duty of our business people.