SAWMILL TO CLOSE

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 16

SAWMILL TO CLOSE

Abandonment At Dobson (From Our Own Reporter! GREYMOUTH, March 7 Because of the establishment of a large processing factory at Harihari, in South Westland, the Auckland timber firm of Henderson and Pollard intends to centralise its work there. This will mean the closure of the Dobson sawmill and the timber treatment plant at Karoro. Mr D. Hardie, a representative of the Auckland firm, said in Greymouth today that it was inevitable with the purchase of the Martini mill and the Harihari Box Company in addition to the establishment of the large factory at Harthari that all Henderson and Pollard’s activities would be concentrated there. Having an output of one million and a half super feet of sawn timber yearly, the Dobson mill is one of the largest on the West Coast It employs 22 men, some of whom work in the bush. The Karoro treatment plant has a staff of five and this makes the total number of employees affected by the closures 27. All these have been offered employment at Harihari but as many of them have established their homes in the Greymouth district it may not be an easy matter for them to transfer.