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

Baxter's

Baxter's.

Baxter's is the name given to a ralway siding on the Greymouth-Christchurch line; it is distant thirteen miles from Greymouth, four miles from Stillwater Junction and thirtynine miles from Otira, and is in the Red Jack's riding of the county of Grey, in the electorate of Grey, and in the provincial district of Westland. There are three sawmills in active operation in the vicinity, and a small amount of farming is also carried on in the district. The railway station stands 129 feet above the level of the sea. At the census of 1901 there was no separate enumeration of the population.

Roberts' Mill (Proprietor, Mr. D. H. Roberts, Greymouth), Baxter's Siding. This mill has been working in its present position since the year 1902, and has many years' work ahead of it. Power is derived from two portable engines, of twelve Lorsepower and eight horse-power respectively. The mill is completely equipped with a good plant.

Mr. George Thomas Bates , Manager of Roberts' Mill, was born at Scott's Gap, Southland, in the year
Mr. G. T. Bates and Daughter.

Mr. G. T. Bates and Daughter.

1881, educated at Clifton, and brought up to sawmilling. He began work at a mill at Woodend, Canterbury, where he worked for a number of years, and afterwards went to Bush Siding, on the Seaward Bush line. When quite a youth, Mr. Bates had charge of a page 585 mill for McCallum and Company at Preservation Inlet, and managed it for fourteen months. He subsequently removed to the West Coast, and was for some time contracting a mill at Craig's Siding. In the year 1904 he took charge of Roberts's mill. Mr. Bates, when in Southland, competed with success as a long distance runner. He is a member of the Order of Druids, and as a Freemason, is a member of Lodge Mawhera, Greymouth.