TIMBER AT WAITAWHETA
COMPANY’S BUSH RUNNING OUT.
OFFER TO GOVERNMENT. The Waitawheta Sawmilling Company, which for the last two or three years has given employment to between 50 and 70 bush workers and millhands, is now gradually reducing the number of its employees, and it is anticipated that the bush will be cut out in from six to eight months (says the Waihi "Telegraph). It is understood, however, that the company lias submitted an offer to the Public Works Department, which has been buying the bulk of the timber, to take out at a fixed price per 1000 ft the khuri in the Waimata bush belonging to the department, and if the terms are accepted the company will be able to give employment to upwards of 40 men for a further period of 12 months or more.
The bush in question is about two and a half miles beyond the head of the Waitawheta Company’s present tramline, and is computed to contain anywhere from 1,750,00’0 to 2,500,000 feet of very fine kauri, but the stumbling block to getting the timber out has been the question of expense. If taken in hand by the department some five or six miles of tramline would have to be laid to deliver the timber to the railway in the vicinity of Woodlands Road, between Athenree and Katikati and expensive plant would be required, whereas acceptance of the Waitawheta Saw-milling Company’s offer would obviate this extensive capital outlay.
The company’s terms have, of course, not been disclosed, but there is reason to believe that they are such as to justify favourable consideration by the Public Works Department of the offer .made, and a reply mqy therefore be expected at an early date. Should the department decide against acceptance, £ which seems improbable, it is unlikely that the timber will ever be taken out, owing to the heavy initial cost of plant, and later of transit, as once the sawmilling company’s tramline is dismantled Woodland’s Road would be the only point at which the timber could be delivered.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5151, 13 July 1927, Page 2
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341TIMBER AT WAITAWHETA Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5151, 13 July 1927, Page 2
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