TIMBER PROSPECTS
The encouraging prospects of developing a valuable export trade in New Zealand silver beech, as outlined by our Wellington Commissioner yesterday, should provide a welome fillip to the timber trade of the Dominion. The prospects in this direction have particular interest in the Rotorua district in view of the fact that it is considered one of two areas outside the provinces of Otago and Southland, where silver beech forests may be profitably developed. The first negotiations in this matter were opened between Southland milling interests and a large English. motor body building concern, and as a result a trial shipment of the timber is being consigned Home. New Zealand silver beech is admirably adapted for coach building purposes and with the tremendous field opened up in this manufacture, the prospects for profitable export appear extremely promising. The timber industry generally is passing through a very difficult period and while the silver beech export will not affect districts where that timber is not milled it will at least promote activity in a section of the industry. Rotorua is fortunate in that it is one of the districts with possibilities in this direction.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 258, 23 June 1932, Page 4
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193TIMBER PROSPECTS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 258, 23 June 1932, Page 4
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