HENDERSON AND WRATT'S MILL.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 58, 19 July 1879, Page 3

HENDERSON A ND WRATT'S MILL.

About four miles further on, at Swainson's Biding, is the mill recently erected by Messrß. Henderson Brothers and Wratfc, not yet. m full working order and not christened. ■;• When we visited the mill the vertical breaking-down saw was m course of erention, that operation being r performed by the flitching saw, four feet m diameter, logs of greater diameter being subjected to a second , cut, The shed is 45 x9O feet, and, m addition to the breaking-down and flitching benches, there is a ripping bench fitted with a circular saw of tin cc feet diameter. : The engine, is a portable one of 16 -horse' power, with tubular boiler, imported. The bush over which the proprietors have the right of cutting is 1000 acres, the timber being mixed; white pine and totara predominating. There "are at presen^ about 30 chains only of wooden tramway asthp mill is scarcely m working order. Twelve handsare employed, the proprietors, themsplvos bringing the number up to 15, for whose accommodation nine cottages have been erected. Ton bullocks are employed, and the out-put when m full working order is expected to be 30,000 feetweek. . The plant has cost, up to the present time, £2000. The proprietors were put to great inconvenience and expense m obtaining water, having had to sink no less than 108 feet before a. sufficient supply was. met with. ' ■ . * '..'.■.