THE TIMBER TRADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 105, 26 September 1914, Page 4

THE TIMBER TRADE.

BIG OPPORTUNITY m. AUSTRALIA.

By Telegraph.—Per Press Association.

Tcilwpc, La*t <N:gbt. Last year the New Zealand exports oli timber to Australia compristed approximately 40,000,000 superficial fee* of rinw and 60,000,000 ft of white nine. According to Mr M. Carpenter, manager of the KancJWkei Gor.wal and Co-oper-ative Timber 00., which controJs scrap +0 mulls on the i-lain Trunk line awl eibjewhero, these fibres are small when compared wfltlh those that cruet inevitably 'be recorded during the cjisuti.ig 12 roonlt'hs. Mr Oirpesitw pointec. oat tlo a pressman this corning that ticrJwrg imported on a larger scale, tluin mi others by Australian merchants were Baltic deri and Oregon pine. .While *he war lasted, none of the former could possibly be sent O'.-.t, and die eooxclla-tic-a of the latter would necesrarilv be restricted to a very pi eat extent. Wlien present stocks were exhausted Australia would be compelled to look to other sources of supply, and here would be New Zealand's opportunity to build arp a tremendous iimlwr trade frith betbig neighbor. "Rimu and white pine are just as serviceable for nil ipracttoal purposes as tine either two," a. id Mr Carpenter, "but Oregon pine and Baltis deal find a readier market, chiefly because of their (prestige, a prestige vhat Now Zealand timbers hnve never had the chance to obtain. lam confident that our timbers wiM Mow secure a, footing that they can mover Hose."