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THE TIMBER SHORTAGE

STVWWT TW HUTmUN OF SAWMILL-BITS' ASSOCIATION. lly Association. Marton, October 23. ■Refe.rrin? to the Press Association messege regarding the shcr'-aip of timber, the chairman of the Hunsirikei Sawmillers' Association was interviewed, ami stated that so far as the Main Trunk millers were, eonncrtic'l everyh'iing was be'iig done to relieve the phorWe. The outnut of members of the Pnnjilikei Asso"iation bst month was nearly, four million feet, as compared with two and a quarter million feet for the same month last year. So far as railway" denied to be cn-ccmed. th« Press Awcintion passage was innccurate. as Railway Dcartment was doinir all it possibly en'dd to transnorl timber, and a considerable improvement o<"i'.r thp normal services was nnlicenblp. In support of this he stated that for the six weeks immediate'y cfter the railwnv "cut" we.s removed, frooi A'lrn't 24 to 0"loVr (1 t'-p ri>"<v.iv« lie--pd from t'ic Mi'in Trunk mills twelve and n half mi'linn feet of t''mbp"i nn increase annroximatelv nf four mil'inn feet, over the cnr.rpspn"diii.<r nen'oi' last veer. Since October fi the rai'way figures had forthc increased, and (n» railways were now . lifti"? nvnroximaMy n. t'lnnsind wagons of timber weekly, '"tulips; three jnillion fpet woeklv. The 'up. plv of v-_ n ,"Oiis was nlpntifii'. and '"illers t-to 'faliin-r advantage ef thi c . Tip further slated that no hnildiii" timber ha<l V»i exported from any of the associated mills.

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 7

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THE TIMBER SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 7

THE TIMBER SHORTAGE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 7

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