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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 238, 2 July 1920, Page 10

PRICE OF TIMBER. ' INCREASE AUTHORISED. The Board of Trade advises that authority has recently been given to -Auckland and Waikato sawmillers and timber murchants to increaso the prices of timber bv amounts ranging from 2s. per 100 for o.b. classes to 3s. (id. per 100 for firstclass kauri. These prices, it is explained, are necessitated on account of the increase in wages recently awarded by the Court to sawmill workers in these districts. i However, increasing prices of timber are inevitable, owing to the great demnnd and the, shortage of suppli&s. lhis condition is one that investors can take advantage of,« for Tho Groat Western Timber Company, Ltd., is being formed to cut out 10,000 acres cf tho finest forest in Now Zealand. A full description of the enterprise, illustrated with recent photographs of the Okarito timber country, will be. found in the prospectus. It is worth rondinjj. Obtainable froni nny hranoh of the Bank of KewJkftland or from Mr. Arthur Pfthoriok, F.1.A.. ISM,, FP.V, N.Z., Public Accountant, Windor's Building, Wellington; J. A. Bruce, i 7 Panama Street, Wellington! or Messrs. Frank Graham* and Son, Chrlatohurch.Advt.