MAIN TKUNK SAWMILLS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1907, 15 November 1913, Page 5

MAIN TKUNK SAWMILLS.

■ . , <s , MUST CLOSE OR REDUCE GUTTING A special meeting of the- RangiMkei SiiwßiUlars , Co-operative Association was held an V?cd&Bsday (says our special correspondent) to dfecW tile stagnation Jβ trade caused by tho watersidors' strike. It was pointed out thaft while the association regretted the seri* (Jus position that had arisen it was practically impossible to tatty oji thebusiness on the same lines as previously. It was therefore -deciefcd to write tei the sasvinillers, painting out ,tho W.nfortunate position that" tiro laJipur trouble had created, and recommending' , that nil tlio mills should cither close down or reduces the cutting eapacity to a tniniifluDt. As tfte association ebntrds about forty mills on the Slain Trunk line, and as many of the towns a;re almost solely dependent .on the timber industry, the effects are boufld te be. serious. The output of tlm sawmill^ ; under the direction af the. Sangitlljei Sawmilters' Association for the month of' October was 3,500.000 Superne'ia.i feet. The outpit for tlie ec>rres.poiiding month of last year was 4.,509, ; 0Q0, Thio falling-aff is attributed to the b-emviiy of money causing , a. slump jii the building trade, especially in tho iiorth,