A serious accident occurred when a bull gouged him on his Pukahu property in 1876 and led him to sell his business to John Hague in August that year.
John Hague was a Napier butcher who sold his two stores to take over John Joll's business.
However, by the beginning of 1878, John Joll was advertising that he had a butcher shop for rent in Havelock.
On November 2 that year, John Joll died aged 40 after a "long and painful illness".
His ledger entries on February 1, 1868, record some interesting sales from his Havelock (and Clive butchery).
Each person's name was listed, the quantity of meat purchased and the price involved.
He sold 14.5 pounds (6.5kg) of mutton to the future founder of Hastings, Francis Hicks, for $23 in today's terms. Most sales were for chops, mutton and roast beef.
Thomas David Hoy (1862-1868) began his butchery in Havelock in 1927, on the corner of Joll and Middle Rds.
His building was purpose-built for him, and he occupied it until the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake did some major damage to the premises.
The butchery then shifted temporarily to a Middle Rd building while repairs were done.
H J Lewis appears to have been the next owner of the butchery after Thomas Hoy.
The business has had a variety of owners over the years. At one stage, as Delmiso's, it combined the butchery with a delicatessen.
In addition to meat, Delmiso's also sold croissants, pizzas and bread.
When the butchery building site on the corner of Joll and Middle roads was demolished to build the present building, the Havelock North Butchery as it was then shifted in 1989 to its present site further up Joll Rd.
Paul Greaney bought the The Village Butchery in June 2012.
He had success in 2013 when his Village Pork sausage came first out of 450 entries to win the Supreme Award at the Devro New Zealand Sausage Competition.
His store went from selling 15kg of the sausages a week to three tonnes of them in the three months leading up to Christmas 2013.
In days gone by many butcheries existed in the main streets of towns and in suburbs, but stiff competition from supermarkets led many to close.
* Last year I wrote an article in Hawke's Bay Today on the sinking of the launch Doris in 1932 at Port Ahuriri with the loss of 10 men's lives.
I suggested a memorial to the men be placed near the site of the tragedy.
Napier City Council has taken this suggestion on board and produced a brief for artists to design a suitable memorial.
The brief can be found at www.napier.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Doris-Tragedy-Artist-Brief.pdf
* Michael Fowler (mfhistory@gmail.com) is the heritage officer at the Art Deco Trust.
