The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Pourakino Sawmill
Pourakino Sawmill (Trail. Brothers and E. K. Smythies, proprietors); offices, Palmerston Street, Riverton. The Pourakino sawmill is situated on a bend of the Pourakino river, some distance above Riverton. The plant includes a twenty horse-power boiler, an eighteen horsepower engine, two benches, a planing machine, a seven horse-power hauling engine, and a force pump to use in case of fire. The average output is 100,000 feet of timber per month, and this is conveyed from the mill to Riverton by punts, and the steam launch “Edina,” of ten horse-power, and forty feet by ten feet beam. Including the partners, twenty persons are employed at the mill.