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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 16 June 1920, Page 4

Some interesting information regarding the timber industry was given to the “Stratford Post” pv Hr J. -Boon. He had visited s. large number of sawmills or. the Main 1 ru.nk line, ami found that orders arc booked many months ahead, ifonic mills are askin 0 7s per 100 ft in advance of the March catalogue prices. There is very little dry timber at any of the mills, and | what there is is drying to fill orders ■ which have been waiting for long periods. Wellington yard prices are 4s J ner 100 ft in advance of the Stratford vard prices, although the- railage, cartage. and handling are approximately the same. There is a great demand for red pine and matai, which, no doubt, i will become more acute each year as the bush -is felled and the land sown in grass. The millers say that if the export of white pine is stopped, most of the timber now being cut for export would be left standing, and the red pine and matai taken. Thus, it would be destroyed by iire and lost to the eciintiy.