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pillars supported the slides on the outside. The pillars also carried a crankshaft and 15 ft (4.57m) diameter flywheel. The flywheel had a belt attached to it, which was used to drive the rest of the machinery. Steam was derived from two multi-tube boilers surrounded by brick construction to separate them from the mill and the engine room. The buildings had been done in two stages with stage one beginning operations earlier in the year. The main building was double-storied with door and sash manufacturing done upstairs, while the groundfloor was taken up with the saws and benches.
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The weekly output of timber production at the time was 70,000 ft (21,336m). Reclamation work was also being done along the foreshore beside the timber wharf using ships' ballast and sawdust from the mill site. However, earlier that year the mill site was closed for several months, which resulted in a significant drop in shipping traffic while timber production was suspended.
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Sawmill Company, started the KVD Box Company, manufacturing butter boxes on the former Kauri Timber Company mill site. The company by 1933 employed 60 workers and turned out more than a million boxes annually. KVD also opened a factory in Morningside, Auckland,
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Company, by December 1892 the mill site covered more than eight acres (3.24ha). The machinery was driven by a 15 hp vertical engine with three tubular boilers. A 100 ft (30.38m) drying shed had been positioned on the landward side of the mill wharf.
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November 1879 the second part of the mill site was being finalised to increase production at the site. A 50 hp, two-cylinder engine for the site was manufactured in 1878 by the firm R Harvey & Co of Glasgow, Scotland. The engine was based on a vertical high-pressure system. Four upright
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February 1887, tenders were advertised for the purchase of the assets and leaseholdings of the Hokianga Sawmill Company by the liquidators. The assets failed to sell and the property was put up for auction the following April. By July 1888 the Hokianga Sawmill Company site at Kohukohu was sold,
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In May 1882, the three ton flywheel used to drive the milling machinery came off its mountings and crashed through the roof of the engine house shattering on impact. The damage caused by the flywheel resulted in the milling operations having to shut down and the mill employees being paid off until
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By April 1879 operations had commenced at the mill site. However, there were concerns of timber being in short supply with the lack of logs being brought downriver due to dry conditions. To supply the needs of the mill hands, two new stores, a butcher's shop and a bakery had been established along
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Hokianga Sawmill Company was in financial difficulties. Its chairman John Henry Dalton called an extraordinary general meeting with the intention of placing the company into liquidation. The following month all mill hands were paid off and operations at the mill closed down.
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undertook to construct breastwork around the sawdust reclamation area, put a road over part of it and subdivide the rest of the land it owned there into sections. At the same time an Order in
Council revoked the Kauri Timber Company's right to occupy the foreshore.
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Kohukohu Town Board, which intended at the time to put a road across part of the site and utilise the rest as a children's playground. The former mill wharf was demolished in May the same year.
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Kohukohu, overlooking the former timber mill wharf. Part of the reclamation using sawdust and ships' ballast can be seen on the foreshore (1918)
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