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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Colac Bay Sawmills

Colac Bay Sawmills (McCallum and Company, proprietors), Colac. Messrs McCallum and Company have two sawmills at Colac, numbered 3 and 6 respectively. The mills are some distance apart, although on the same line of tramway. The tramway has iron rails, and a locomotive is employed to haul the timber to the railway siding at Colac. At No. 3 mill the plant comprises a twenty horse-power engine and boiler, two benches, two planing machines, and a blacksmith's shop. At No. 6 mill there is an eighteen horsepower portable engine and two benches. Three hauling engines are jointly employed, two of seven horse-power, and one of eight horse-power. Thirty persons are employed at the two mills, and the average daily output of timber is 7,500 feet.