THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43348, 11 July 1908, Page 3

THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.

' ■ [To tie Editor.;. oir—i have now pleasure m giving actual positionre. timber prices, and • jincreasesin price, and I feel , sure the ' |V - facts will ,be a surprise to all your readers, ' ■ ,ahd especially to your first correspondent, ' “Hamilton Builder ” who..stated defini- ■ tely, that timber had . gone up 100 per , ~ . cent, I take the printed price list of the Association, dated September, Ist • . and which prices were not altered for three years and seven ■ months, as the basis of the prices four years'and a half, ago, and I take the . . . printed price list dated 10th December, 1907, which was in force on the 31st ‘ 1908, the end of the period under review in my letter to the Premier. mmu. , . ■ ... ■ ■ ' „ i-

.. , An average rise on the seven classes of . bay 7*- per cent. . I ••• TO-ABA., *- ' percent

4T;x mfte arelotora ctats The average : on the whole r i twelve classes is 6£ per cent. . I hope no one will blush about what he has said 1 about the “.bally : saw-millers,” the last year 'or so, and I ask still again what part of the cost of a house has: 80 small a percentage in the same time, No wonder the sawmillers ape making less each year trying to give the, public cheap timber, aud what kind %■ thanki s. We have received. Of course 6| { “AV percent would be a good profit if we ;• -had [.'obtained it, which I have already I have not, and outside of this our costs have gone up, in some case - over 20 per cent, in the same time. I ; S Should have said that in the last price ; list, some of the classes have a different \ ’. E n ' JO .A°?. boards and scantling, and in , iiM'v 0^, c h 08868 1 have 'taken the average between tne two prices, and also as I have ] ~ ’ previously pqinted out, the prices of the , ■ cheaper classes only, were raised in April last.—l am, etc., * , ' r nr' -n - J. W. Ellis, . . , . | Chairman. Soath Auckland Sawmillers Association. [We haie been asked to insert the C .abovelet-in the News* The letter ,( appeared 's(. the Waikato papers a i Hhort timAback.—£d 1 c 1 ’ ' mmmmmmmmmmmmmm—mm- 1

' \ ; ' ‘ '' ' 1903 •r /."I 1908 er cent Ordinary building 12/6 12/6 rise y '.8 7/ : Heart . 15/0 16/0 „ 61 -■ Selected heart .7 w Hough heart ' ■ . < 18/0 -11/6 18/3. „ 12/0 „ U . H ■: ' Second class . .. 9/6 10/9 „ 13 - Bougt lining ,. : 8/0 8/6 „ 6} ; / v Rough lining .. 9/6 10/6 „ 10£

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