THE STATE SAWMILL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 March 1915, Page 2

THE STATE SAWMILL

A CORRESPONDENT signing himself " Waima Farmer," writing to the Dargaville " Times," says : — "It is pathetic to witness how certain Dargaville people are tumbling over themselves to benefit their fellow creatures in the matter of the proposed State sawmill. Anything and everything with them begins and ends in Dargaville, which in their idea is the hub of the universe. Dear me ! I wonder how long Dargaville would last without its back residents. It strikes me that the business people of the baby borough don't know who is feeding them. In the Kaihu district we have now the bulk of all the standing timber in the Kaipara, and to. get all the trickles of profit from converting the trees into lumber, tfee dear, generous people of Dargaville want the sawmill built in -the centre of their town properties. If they were given their way there would be only one settlement in Kaipara, and that would be -f their own. The people of Kaihu, Waima, Aranga, and the other settlements beyond Kaihu will have more to say about the matter, and are forwarding a claim that the sawmill be erected close to the bush, so that everything worth cutting up will be used. If the mill is erected in Dargaville not a foot of land will be brought into new - settlement, but if it is erected in the bush, thousands of acres will become farms and help to fill the hungry borough jaws.