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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1920, Page 2

The adjunctive aid of the Progress League locally to assist in urging matters of public interest on the attention of the .authorities has been demonstrated again by the interest taken' by the body named in regard to wharfage accommodation and railway facilities for timber export. There are now in the immediate vicinity of Hokitika some fifteen sawmills which will be exporting timber via Hokitika. Till shipping is procured, all this export must go by rail, and it is being made palpably plain for some months past, that the local skid accommodation. is altogethed in adequate to deal with the freightage offering. All the fifteen mills are not in operation yet, but only recently some of the operating sawmills were stopped because there was no stacking room available at Hokitika for export. As it is, it is largely by the courtesy of the Harbor Board that a considerable space on the waterfront is available for stacking the timber. Were shipping going forward here as it should be, very littie of that space could be used for railway shipments. The stringency from a railway point of view is therefore very serious, and if that important department is to be in the way of earning the revenue it should, then it must wake up and provide the means for the necessary loading facilities. There js the other side of the case also—the need for the industry to advance the general