DAILY FEATURES

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 12334, 26 April 1938, Page 2

DAILY FEATURES

A PAGE PROM THE PAST Tauranga 50 Years Ago In the Bay of Plenty TiniPApril 26. ISSS, appeared the f O L-' ing;— “Mr Blundell, who is at j, r . s - . getting the old flour mill at the \r. Et roa Bridge into thorough worth'* order, expects to be in a’position commence grinding iu about'three " four weeks. When the repairs'* 01 , improvements were jonmienced ■ was found that the furrows f £l stores were nearly worn out wh\ 'l cxplains the cause of the luul grind!.“ before operations were stopped v , new faces have been put ou'th-’ stones, ami they are able to turn o t flour as good as any other pair in colony. The wheat cleaning machhf cry has* boon rearranged, and a elevator to this has been put in' tk old wire screen for dressing the a ' has been dene away with, and a Z! silk dressing machine substituted The area of the mill pond is about r or 70 acres, and there is a reserve f 0! water supply, of 240 acres ’-nj former overflow pipes, two in number and 15 inches in diameter, have he'i taken up. and four pipes, is inchesh diameter have been laid down Thin ill will grind eight or ten sacks J four and a-half bushels each into t many 2001 b sacks of flour in one dav a proportional quantity of sharps and bran being also turned out. As th Maoris around Tauranga are pmtice in about 500 acres of wheat this season, about 3000 sacks mav be exncr*. ed next year from them alone Th would take the mill 300 working .lays, at least to turn into flour Some arrangements, therefore. r.i|] have to be made before next season's crop is ready, for increasing the num her of mill st .ms if it is all to he ground in Tauranga.’’