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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

Sawmillers

Sawmillers.

Lincoln Bros. and Toomey (James, John, Daniel, and Thomas Lincoln, and Daniel Toomey), Sawmillers and Timber Merchants, page 520
Hauling Logs on Messrs Lincoln Bros. and Toomey's Property.

Hauling Logs on Messrs Lincoln Bros. and Toomey's Property.

Flowery Creek, Hokitika. Telegraphic address, “Lincoln, Hokitika.” Bankers, National Bank of New Zealand. The sawmill is situated opposite the Stafford Railway Station, and was
Mr. D. Lincoln.

Mr. D. Lincoln.

erected in 1897. The machinery consists of a thirty horse-power engine, twin circular saws for breaking down purposes, forty-two-inch breast bench saw and planing machinery. The mill is capable of producing from seven to eight thousand feet of sawn timber daily. The firm holds timber rights over 1000 acres of the Midland Railway Reserve, and has 100 acres leased from Messrs Keech and Malloy, of Kumara. Besides doing a fair trade locally, the firm ships regularly to the Christchurch market. In addition to the partners, nine persons are employed in the business.

Mr. James Lincoln , the Senior Partner, was born in Victoria in 1859, and brought up on the West Coast. He worked at the Mapouriki diggings for three years, and previous to joining the firm in partnership he was employed for over twelve years in one of the leading sawmills on the West Coast.

Mr. Daniel Lincoln was born in Hokitika, in 1869, and educated at the Hokitika Catholic schools. He has had over twenty years' experience in the timber industry.

The Westland Sawmilling Company, Limited , was established in the year 1894. The company's capital is £2,000 in ten shares of £200 each. The original mill of the company at Awatuna was destroyed by fire in January, 1898. It was re-erected under contract by Mr. Hornby, and in the year 1903 was removed to Kapitea Creek. The mill was completed in the following year, and is up-to-date in every respect. It is worked under contract by Mr. A. Thomson. The company has timber rights over 800 acres of bush, which is practically yet to be worked out. The capacity of the mill is 7000 cubic feet per day. Directors in the year 1905: Messrs H. L. Michel, chairman; B. Lyons, F. Henne, A. Boys, and A. Stevenson. Mr. A. B. King is secretary.

Mr. John Hornby , formerly Mill Manager for the Westland Sawmilling Company, was born in Yorkshire, England, in the year 1832, and followed the trade of a millwright in Austwick and Liverpool, till he went to Melbourne, Australia, with his wife, in the ship “Blue Jacket,” in 1855. After eighteen months of contracting, he got the gold fever, and had six or seven years' experience on the Bendigo, Ballarat, Smythe's Creek, and Mount Blackwood diggings. Fortune having been kind to him he crossed to New Zealand in 1863, and subsequently commenced contracting at Picton and erecting sawmills in Marlborough. In 1876, he established himself as a sawmiller at Mount Pleasant, three miles from Picton, where he conducted business for over six years. Mr. Hornby
Mr. J. Hornby.

Mr. J. Hornby.

was subsequently a sawmiller in Kaituna valley, where he was unsuccessful in land and building speculations, etc. The machinery of the mill at Awatuna, where he was milling for several years, was used in his mill in Queen Charlotte Sound, and it was bought by Mr. Kensington, who retained Mr. Hornby's services to erect machinery for the Sawmilling Company at Awatuna. Whilst a resident in Marlborough. Mr. Hornby took an active share in local politics. He was a member of the Picton Road Board for many years, was on the Pelorus District Road Board, and was member and chairman of the Okaramio school committee. As a Freemason, Mr. Hornby belongs to the New Zealand Constitution. He has been twice married; in the second instance to a daughter of Mr Glover, of Stafford. Mr. Hornby is now (1906) interested in a sawmill in the provincial district of Auckland.