BEQUEATHED TO CITY
SYMONDS STREET MILL OWNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT (Pur Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Alarmed by the prospect of the taking of his property as a site for a new central fire station, Mr. J. Partington, the owner of the old windmill in Symonds street, one of Auckland’s best-known landmarks, has authorised his solicitor to announce that provision has been made in his will for the bequeathing of the mill and the surrounding properties, valued at about £IOO.OOO, to the City of Auckland on the death of the owner. . The Partington family has owned the mill since its erection in the early davs of the city, and Mr. Partington still operates the plant, living in a house adjacent. Mr. Partington decided to make public the fact thatr he was bequeathing to the city, only because of recent suggestions that the site might be taken for a Are station:
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 5
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