MILLING TIMBER

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 124, 12 February 1918, Page 8

MILLING TIMBER

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Grsy mouth, February 11. Practicollv all the s;nvmillcrs of the Grey and Westlai'd conntics were present or represented at Greymouth yes- • , terday afternoon at the invitation of the Canterbury Commissioner of the National Efficiency Board (Mr. J. A. Frostick), wlio made a, spccml tup to the West Coast to inaugurate a standing committee of those interested to i deTil \> ith a matter affecting the industry. The commissioner, in the course of an nblo address, indicated the sub- - jc.'ts of national importance upon uliich .the committee might advise the board, such as the demarcation of forest country into areas to be reserved or otherwise; afforestaion methods; securtb? best results from existing forests: and utilisation of waste producfa. committee under the National EffiBoard of seven sawmillers. was "pointed, and at the request of the . c"".m:Ssio;ier, who desired a chairman vlioliv unconnected with the sawmilliiiaustrv, Mr. T. Eldon Coates conto fill the-position. Meetings •oHV committee will bs held alternately k't Cl>9--mc.uth and Ilokitika at fre-:qu-iu', ifile'rvals. Froin the remarks of "t'to raminiscionHf it ls .' of ih(; milling industry is fully apvreoiwtd by tho Governrnont. r»))ci iiiroiish t.io >< itw -1 LMrtioy Nov-sl its'invests w.li k ®5 0 urccl rtpresnni^v.vn.