WIND MILL.

New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume V, Issue 341, 24 April 1844, Page 2

WIND MILL.

To Messrs. Simmond's and Hoggard the credit of establishing the first Wind Mill m this part, if not in any part, of New Zealand is due. Their Mill is erected on Te Aro Flat, and has now been in operation some days. The difficulty with which they have to contend is the inequality of wind. At certain seasons of the year the wind in this harbour alternates suddenly and every few minutes between great strength and almost calm ; but this inequality is we believe peculiar to spots surrounded by hilly countfy. At Otaki, Manawatu, New Plymouth, and the East Coast, it will be found the wind is a steady power. Messrs. Molesworth and Ludlam are now erecting a Wind Mill on the Hutt, which we : believe will be in operation at no distant date. With these two Wind Mills, and Mr. Catchpool's Steam Grist Mill, the colonists will be tolerably well supplied with the means of grinding the grain already grown in the colony. At no distant date we hope that we shall at least produce all the grain we need for home consumption ; and then we shall require more mill power than at present there is any appearance of our being provided with. Indeed it would be a saving to the community even now to have sufficient mill power to grind to the extent of our consumption, for it would be found more profitable to import the wheat and grind it here, until we produce enough for our consumption, than to import flour. The existence of mills will prove an inducement to produce grain, for with the facility of converting it into flour, every gen- ' tleman and labourer will be. found to have bis desire to produce sufficient wheat to provide against the uncertainty of being able to purchase imported flour, greatly increased. H^ and he alone, who can produce his own food in a community beset with the difficulties to which we are exposed, can be considered safe. Let every man be diily impressed witt this, and act upon it, and the security of the community will be guaranteed.