FATAL MOTOR-CYCLING ACCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 94, 14 January 1918, Page 5

FATAL MOTOR-CYCLING ACCIDENT

'A motor-cycling accident which terminated fatally occurred on Saturday afternoon at Northland. Adolph John Schulonburg, of Creswick Terrace, was, it is reported, driving a motor-cycle \Vith a side-car, when the machine went over an embankment and fell a distance of fifteen feet. Mr. Schulenburg had his skull fractured, and was admitted! to the Hospital on Saturday at 5.45 p.m. He died thorp without regaining consciousness at 2.5 a.m'. yesterday. Deceased was a married man, 34 years of ago. His parents reside in South Dunedin.

American advices lately to hand 1 indicate an exceptional demand for Oregon piue. Enormous orders have been executed for Britain and the Continent for war purposes. Wooden ships arc being built in large numbers on the Pacifio Coast, and Oregon is mainly used in their construction. Along ivitii this exceptional demand is the worldinquiry for supplies normally _ drawn from Europe and Asiatic Russia,'but now no longer available from these sources, and it is to Oregon that this demand has turned. The f.o.b. cost is now much heavier, due mainly to the steady decrease of sawmilling supplies, shortage and higher cost of labour, and increase of local freight. By the timo the timber arrives in Australia or New Zealand, with the present increase of sea freights, Oregon will no longer be available at a cheap price. Two months ago the Bruce Railway and Coal Company ordered for delivery at Lyttelton a shipment of Oregon, and within the same month a smaller shipment for Timaru. From advices now to hand it is apparent that to duplicate theso cargoes at the present timo would mean the payment of at least Bs. per LOO feet super, boyond tho purchased prices of the timber at present landing. Freight space formerly available for timber is now otherwise required. Two largo motor ships which had been chartered to carry Oregon for Australia have been requisitioned by tho United States Government, and it is understood that all motor ships will be diverted from tho lumber trado, leaving tho business to sailers exclusively.