THE TIMBER TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 4

THE TIMBER TRADE.

ai.&tralian markets for our WOODS. j[Pu Pbim Association 1 Taihaps, September 25. Last year the New Zealand exports of timber to Australia comprised approximately 40,000,000 superficial feet of riniu and 60,000.000 ft of white pine. According to Mr M. Carpenter, man- ... or of the Rangltikei General and Cooperative Timber Co., which controls some 40 mills on the. Mam Trunk hue and elsewhere, these figures are small v, hen compared with those that must im utably be recorded during the ensuing 12 months. Mr Carpenter pointed out to a pressman this morning i that timbers imported on a larger i scale than any others by Australian 1 merchants were Baltic deal and | gen pine. While the war lasted, none lof t he former could possibly be sent out and the exportation of the latter would necessarily be restricted to ft very great extent. When _ present stocks were exhausted Australia would bo compelled to look to other sources of supply, and here would be New Zealand’s opportunity to build up a tremendous timber trade with her neighbour. “Rimn and white pine are jus I ns serviceable for all practical purposes aj; the other two,” said Mr Carpenter,'“but Oregon pine and Baltic 1 deal find a readier market, chiefly i because of their prestige, a prestige that Now Zealand timbers have never had the chance to obtain. T am confident that our timbers will now secure a footing that they can never 1 lose.”