A hand flour-mill, which was used in Otago as long ago as 1854 and is still in remarkably good condition, lias been received by tlie Otago Early Settlers’ Association from Mr. G. Stevenson, Weston. The mill had been lying in Mr. Stevenson’s barn for a good many years, but it formerly belonged to the late Mr. G. B. Atkinson, who used it at Clifton Falls in 1854' and possibly earlier to grind wheat for the use of his family. At that time an area of about a quarter of an acre was dug with the spade, the wheat was sown by hand, harvested with a sickle, threshed with a flail, and afterward ground into flour by the use of this hand-driven mill. It is questionable whether another of the kind exists in Otago, or anywhere else in New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 159, 2 April 1937, Page 8
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