1878 Belfield Steam Flour Mill at south end of North Street. In 1881 the Evans Atlas Flour Mill built on George Street. Ad of the time listed it as producing flour unequalled anywhere in the colony. Most modern roller flour dressing machinery in the world. http://sites.rootsweb.com/~nzlscant/mills.htm 1870s South Canterbury became a major wheat producer. Production peaked in the early 1900s. https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11400/harvesting-wheat
Royal Flouring Mills, James Bruce & Co. Millers & Grain Merchants. Royal Flouring Mills. Hocken Digital Collections, accessed 17/04/2025, https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/23535
Evans and Company billhead (31 May 1898). Hocken Digital Collections, accessed 17/04/2025, https://hocken.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/61627
Timaru Flour Mills 1972_Tiaki Ref Num WA-70626-F-PA-Group-00080 Whites Aviation Ltd Photographs
1920-1940 J R Bruce's Dominion Roller Flour Mill, Timaru. South Canterbury Museum https://digitalnz.org/records/42256850
Evans' Atlas Roller Milling Co, Timaru 1900-1960 South Canterbury Musuem 1999/143.5 https://timdc.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/430E06E5-7F27-4A08-8E0B-423042889920
J R Bruce's Dominion Flour Mill under construction 1920 -1295 South Canterbury Museum 2018/069.02 https://timdc.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/199FADAA-850A-4800-A454-435353852111 J R Bruce's Dominion Flour Mill building under construction by the Shillito Bros, probably pictured in 1921. The company's premises was later supplemented by a two-storey biscuit factory built in 1925 adjoining High Street (not pictured). Pictured in the foreground are several professional-looking men. The man second from left may be the owner, J R Bruce, while the donor believes the architect Herbert Hall appears on the far right. In the left background on a gig and on the scaffolding a number of other men, presumably Shillito Bros building crew, also appear.
Flour-Mill-Evans Atlas Roller Flour Milling Company Timaru NZ South-Canterbury-Museum South Canterbury Museum 2775 https://timdc.pastperfectonline.com/Photo/2DD35BC5-C13B-4F47-8B9E-432827104143 A mounted photograph entitled "Evans' Atlas Roller Flour Milling Company, Timaru, N.Z", circa 1892. Shows the grain storage area to the south of the mill (in the background) prior to the second grain store being built in 1897. The grain is shown stored in a long open fronted shed which is almost full with sacks of grain. Several men are standing in front of the shed and to the right is the Evans' Atlas building. In front of the building is the locomotive 'A' 68 linked to wagons also loaded with grain.
Timaru from the dome of the RC Church, looking east. The left side of the image is bordered by Heaton Street, while Browne Street cuts in diagonally from the left side. Across the foreground runs Rose Street. In the foreground part of the Marist Brothers School is visible (with the crosses on the roof line), while the building to the right and behind the hedge may be the school building which was used as a church, when the previous church burnt down until the basilica was finished. Further in the background Timaru Breweries, John Jackson & Co (timber and coal merchants), and Evans Atlas & Co mill are amongst the buildings that can be seen. The title and the photographer's name appears inscribed along the lower left of the image. South Canterbury Museum 2477