GRADING OF TIMBER

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1929, Page 7

GRADING OF TIMBER

PRACTICAL STEPS

SATISFACTION EXPRESSED BY MINISTER.

WELLINGTON, April 5

(Satisfaction t)iat -sawiniilers were talcing pracitical steps to meet the wishes of the (Government and other consumers of timber by making supplies available properly conditioned and graded under the new standard rules recently approved by Cabinet was expressed by the .Minister of Industries and Commerce (the Hon. J. G Cobbe.) I ho .Minister said that lie had been informed that one of largest groups of .sawmillers in the Dominion had con siderahle stocks of such timber and that prices had been arranged in accordance with tlie new rules, hut that generally the adjustments made did not involve any increase in the average cost. He expressed his satisfaction that sawmillers were meeting the position promptly because he felt sure that the results of the immediate adoption of the new scheme would prove most beneficial, not only to the timber industry but to all timber consumers. Representatives of the special Timber Committee had already given practical demonstratians of timber grading and classification under the new system to timber merchants and builders in the main centres of the South Island. Similar demonstrations woul" be curried out in tlie North Island within the next few weeks. The Minister stated that the special Government Timber Committee would continue to function and would in conjunction with Sawmillers’ Fereration, consider other important matters affecting 'both .'the. production and distribution of timber and the decisions arrived at, no doubt, would have ail important bearing on the future of the industry. A further conference would be held between the speial Timber Committeo and sawmillers in June next.