SHIPPING SPACE WANTED
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KARAMEA SETTLERS' PLIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association. _ T , Karamea, August 16. Iho kuramea Bar is particularly good at tho present time, the channel being straight, and tliero is at least H feet depth at spring tides, yet through the inability to secure vessels to carry the timber away all tlio sawmills are at a standstill, ono firm of millers having four hundred thousand feet of dry timber awaiting shipment. Although they are offering big freights they cannot securo vessels. This is a pitv as this district is one of the finest in the Dominion. There is at least fifty million feet of rimu and whito pine iii the district, the quality of which is second to none in the country, and at present settlers are felling and burning it in order to clear tho land.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2852, 17 August 1916, Page 6
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137SHIPPING SPACE WANTED Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2852, 17 August 1916, Page 6
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