THE SAWMILLING INDUSTRY.
A PRECARIOUS SITUATION.
(SrECTAL TO "the pbess") GREYMOUTH, June 5. Speaking before the Land Tenure Commission this morning, Mr E. A. Wickos pointed out that tho West Coast sawmills cut principally rod pine. Unlike the kauri and other timbers of the North Island, it was a timber of tho cheaper class, and one that suffered most by tbo competition of Oregon pine. Only the other day it had been rioted that Oregon timber could be landed here at 7s per 100 feet. No .sawmi'ler on the West Coast, continued Mr Wickes. ever made uionev or died rich, and what tho future held out was even problematical. This Id the chairman (Mr J. Strauchon) to remark that tho millf-r, like the alluvial miner, apparently lived in hope.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14987, 6 June 1914, Page 14
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129THE SAWMILLING INDUSTRY. Press, Volume L, Issue 14987, 6 June 1914, Page 14
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