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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3456, 9 April 1920, Page 5

“We cannot supply a foot of kauri just now,” said a member of one of the Wellington timber and milling firms to a Post reporter the other morning, “ami, further, we have no idea when we shall be able to accept orders again.” The reporter was shown what the managing director of a big Auckland milling concern had written on the Ist inst: “'We arc at the present time out of kauri logs. We are expecting logs in about a month’s time, but unfortunately have several months’ arrears of orders to cut.’’ When asked where the kauri had been going during the past year or so. the gentleman replied: “To Australia. If the Government would see to it that Now Zealand’s demands were first met we, and through us, many builders, cabinetmakers, and carpenters would not be faced with the present difficulty. At the present Tate of cutting and export it would be impossible to buy kauri at any price in New Zealand, and no system of afforestation will bring up the supply of kauri in fifteen or fifty years.” These remarks recalled the fact that several returned soldiers had mentioned that they had been very surprised to> see in one of the suburbs of Durban a huge hoarding bearing the * words: “N.Z. Kauri Timber Company. ’ ’ SHAELAND’S MALT VINEGAR makes delightful salads. Brewed from mineral acids. Conforms to requirements of Food and Drugs Act. All grocers, 1