TIMBER MEN CONFER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 410, 19 July 1928, Page 9

TIMBER MEN CONFER

DEPRESSION OF INDUSTRY GREATER EFFICIENCY NEEDED Press Association TAU MARUN UI. To- day. Over thirty sawmillers and managers attended a meeting yesterday at the invitation of the special timber committee set up by the Government to ‘examine the circumstances of the timber industry. Mr. G. Goldfinch, Mayor of Oliakune, presided and Messrs. J. YV. Collins. YV. C. YY r ard, members of the timber committee, and M. A. Seed, Dominion secretary of the Federated Sawmillers was also present. Mr. Collins outlined the recommendations of the Timber Committee, and gave details of tlie draft grading 1 U The meeting resolved to support strongly the general principles of the proposals, though there were several minor details of grading rules, and schedules of definitions which would be referred to the Timber Committee for further consideration. Mr. Collins emphasised the deplorable state of the depression which existed in the timber industry and said that it was not in the interest of the Dominion that such a large employing industry should be allowed to wane. The unanimous opinion of the meeting was that immediate steps should be*taken by the sawmillers themselves to bring about better co-ordination and better co-operation with the object oi : securing greater efficiency, both in tli€ interest of those engaged in the industry itself, and to the end of en- | auring a better service to the public