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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 97, 14 September 1878, Page 2

We BtJß'jjhid to learn that there is every prospect At several- "new saw mills starting in*" the disTniVt before long, it being utterly . out "of ;the power of tlip millers to execute one half tho orders they hhve.*o.n Jiaiul. Wtv have been informed by Mi'/ NA.N'vß'-fAbs'that Gc*rHaiE and Laun'ach;, of X)unedin, ..are prepared to keep "two 'crafts eontrnnally loading at the Foxton wharf, if the mills could only keep up the supply. We were speakjng to a gentleman, who is now visiting the district from Wairarmpa with. .the view of securing, some bush land, and ho informed us that he had been- all ov_r tin*: Ira di between Palmerston and Feilding, and that there was as much tiuiber m that distance alone as ..would, keep .twenty mills cut. tiny ten thousand feet pet* day for the next ten years. When we were speaking to him ho was on his return from Foxton where he had gone to see as to the shipment, aud expressed himself

in* the highest terms of the facilities afforded by that port for the purpose. It is.n-ally a pity with amine of wealth at our very door, and an almos^jnex^. hanstiUie demand, more millsf db''-not' start) to supply the orders. Strangers coming from other parts see the splendid opening there is, and wonder, why it is, that with the everything to increase the timber trade to a 'enormous extent, orders are refused and the trade sent to the -Sound and elsewhere. It is a matter for suprise to us, that some of our energetic public men .do not cprrie forward,, to float a company for the purpose.- There can be no two opinions as to it proving a pecuniary success, as' there is ;an inexhaustible supply of the material, with a demand, but little less. .By such a company a vast' gbbd would ' be done to the County, it would provide labor, and give an impetus to its commercial progress. We feel quite convinced if the matter were t'aken^up energetically, there would be no difficulty m the proceeding, and Foxton shou'd lend its co-operation towards developing an industry which would so materially benefit its. port. We feel that some such course is absolutely necessary* ; Wanganui is : drawing, fpr its home consumption all the timber .from this end, and of course it 'stands ,to reason that as long as millers can dispose of their timber without shipping or wharfage charges being entailed, they .will dispose of it m that way. Something' will need to be done to make jFoxton hold its own as a port'; the I means are at hand ; all it requires is the [will and the energy. • :