TAONCTI MILL.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 50, 21 June 1879, Page 2

TAONCTI MILL.

Aboub a ini'e f arfchei* along the lint is the Taomii Mill, the props *ty of Messis. Bailey Bros, '.''his mill is not quite so large, as the Trjnrlj.'im, tbe slied being 80. x 60. The inte 'Dal arrangements diffei 1 from tbo»e of' the Ti'Oiii'jeiai hi several j.'«jpects. The?fi* j one travelling bench instead of two, and the ripping sawvis four feel m diameter, whereas ] + .hat qf\£he other mill is three feefc. There is b.ei"e ; ah, ingenious cohtrirahc* -foe t:\king .•ira^jblift »aw-du»t f?oin the ripping beach, of a number of small jßetal btfcicel3 affixed to an endless band^^ lerolTinj *oy«r drums id -placed that tlie buckets ketp dipping into the iawdiwt and discharging themSelvw into a large- wooden boii m tbe the shapa of a hopper..- This box stand* on a raised platform^ and when full, is wheeled on- to a truckj and thus eaivied to ■where it is inquired for ballasting the tramways, or other pn'/poses. On* of the latter is,.'fi>nning the b«d of the stoelc-yard where tue bullocks are kept waen at work, forming' a very dry bed tor them. Thei-e are two •Dgines, of 21rQorse-power combintd, .made by Ruston and Procter; The *\jtrage amount of timber turned out weekly is 2^,000 feet. Tbe""-propr"etors possess 1000 acres of freehold land, and lease, m addition, 400 acres more. There are a.bout two mile 3of tram--way m connection l^ with the mill. Tne' timber is, for the most part, totara and mataj. Tliere are nine weil-built cottageV for the accommodation of the ihands~nnployed—abotit twenty m numberj^-thirty-working bullocks, and a few horses. The plant— including the tramways/ but exclusive of the land— may be piit down at £4000.