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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 9

"Workers in the timber industry must have felt like the pastoralidt the end of a two years' drought (says the West Australian correspondent of the "Melbourne ArG") when ,they ■ heard "that an l order l had been woeived from South Africa for £50,000 .'worth of jarrah sleepers for railway construction' in that; Dominion. For ■the'mill workers there'has for months not been, a sou to earn, not a job to he had. for Ipve or money. Hardly stroke of work i& being'done any- . where in the timber areas; except' by t}ie forest' 'who are Government employees, «nd who rouj«t be kept at wprk to save the timber from destruction, hpwever; unmarketable it -may be. ' Fortunate, «-re the .few timber,workers who have in the years stone bv carved, out little 1 Q-pcre b omes "for theuiselyes in the gullies,' for -they ?~t leasi can on the production rom their .tiny holdincw, .whereas for the rerciflinoejv there haa; b r een, nothiner but penury, sometimes, almost starvation, ' ThJft , new -contrsfnt. while not covering the entire field, will tend to relieve rt' great de*] of - diVrest. and V bv the time the order is fulfilled other ,ayenuep ftir. export mav .relief -'"be afforded . it-' wuol} , ; ' , ,