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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Price, Thomas

Price, Thomas, Proprietor, Albion Sawmill, Newman; Timber Yards at Petone. Mr. Price's mill, which is the largest in the Fourty-mile Bush district, is supplied with logs which are drawn by a locomotive along a steel tramway over five miles long. The sawmill is fitted with two travelling benches and twin saws, a ripping bench, breast bench, and planing machine, which are driven by a twenty-five horse-power engine. The principal timbers used are totara, rimu, matai, white pine, and rata. Mr. Price was born in Liverpool in 1838, and came to Nelson when four years old in the ship “Olympus” with his parents. After a residence of about thirty years in Wakefield, in the Province of Nelson, where he worked with his family, Mr. Price married and came to Wellington some five years later. Removing to Carterton he commenced business as a general storekeeper, which he carried on successfully for about five years, when he sold out and started business as a sawmiller at the south of Carterton, and subsequently erected a mill at Dalefield, which he worked for twenty years before removing to Newman. In Carterton Mr. Price took an active interest in church matters as a vestryman of St. Mark's, and in military affairs as a volunteer. A Freemason and Oddfellow of long standing, he is also an enthusiastic cricketer. Mr. Price has one son and one daughter.

Mr. Thos. Price.

Mr. Thos. Price.