The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
The Colac Bay Sawmill
The Colac Bay Sawmill (New Zealand Pine Company, proprietors), Colac. This mill possesses a most complete plant, including a thirty horse-power engine, with a boiler of 120 pounds pressure; and there are three benches, a crane, two planers, a twenty-five horse-power locomotive, and ten horse-power, and nine and a-half horse-power hauling engines. The average weekly output is about 45,000 feet of timber.