NEW BUSINESSES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 46, 27 June 1947, Page 3

NEW BUSINESSES

EX-SERVICEMEN STRIKE OUT SOME NOTABLE CASES A timber mill at Te Whaiti beyond Whakatane and Rotorua, operated by eleven ex-servicemen who styled themselves the Longfern Timber Company, is mentioned in the latest report of the Rehabilitation Department as an example of how ex-servicemen are being assisted in business.

A coalmine, a timber mill, several large transport companies, a house-building group, an engineering construction company and a syndicate formed for the manufacture of a special staple material for use in residential building are some of the other major undertakings in which the Rehabilitation Board has financed groups of experienced exservicemen.

One of the transport companies is in Marlborough and has accounted for the rehabilitation of 22 ex-ser-vicemen operating as working partners. Another is* in Christchurch where the company comprises nine ex-servicemen owner operators. There is yet another in Auckland, two in Gisborne and others elsewhere throughout New Zealand. The engineering construction firm, which is in Whangarei, is of particular interest in that the eight partners are brothers, seven of them being ex-servicemen. In the case of the house-building group, this has been formed from a number of rehabilitation building trade trainees who have concluded their training. To be known as the Kiwi Construction Company, with headquarters at Westport, it comprises eight men. The company expects to be mainly engaged on State housing contract work in the area. It will be the first group of trainees to form themselves into a company for house-building purposes. Another company has been formed in Auckland again with rehabiliation finance, and is composed of 11 ex-servicemen. Its speciality is the manufacture of a special concrete board which it claims will make for speedier construction in housebuilding as well as being an excellent substitute for timber or other staple building materials.