Photograph, Trail brothers new Pourakino saw mill; Unknown photographer; 1900-19...
Photograph, Trail brothers new Pourakino saw mill
About this object
A black and white photograph of Trail's mill. From the Cyclopedia of New Zealand:
POURAKINO SAWMILL (Trail. Brothers and E. K. Smythies, proprietors); offices, Palmerston Street, Riverton. The Pourakino sawmill is situated on a bend of the Pourakino river, some distance above Riverton. The plant includes a twenty horse-power boiler, an eighteen horsepower engine, two benches, a planing machine, a seven horse-power hauling engine, and a force pump to use in case of fire. The average output is 100,000 feet of timber per month, and this is conveyed from the mill to Riverton by punts, and the steam launch “Edina,” of ten horse-power, and forty feet by ten feet beam. Including the partners, twenty persons are employed at the mill.
Between 1899 and 1941 the Trails operated several mills.
Oceania, New Zealand, South Island, Southland, Pourakino
Maker Maker RolePhotographer
Date Made1900-1910
Inscription and Marks
Handwritten on the front: 'Trail's new mill Pourakino'
Stamped on the back: 'Wallace Early Settlers Museum, Riverton'
Handwritten on the back: 'P48.93.646'
Yellow sticker on back: '02/8'
Image: h 153 mm x w 207 mm
Mount: h 250 mm x w 303 mm
1900s
Object Type Subject and Association Keywords Subject and Association Keywords Medium and Materials
organic, processed material, paper
organic, processed material, cardboard
RI.P48.93.646
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