SAWMILLS CLOSING DOWN.
SERIOUS POSITION. ATTRIBUTED TO IMPORTATIONS. HOKITIKA, February 9. News from South Westland to-day indicates that additional sawmills are dosing down in that quarter. A Ross correspondent states that 50 per cent, of the male population is dependent on sawmill work and that all the mills in the locality are now closed or closing. Large supplies of sawn timber arc on hand and some few days’ employment is afforded by filleting white pine to prevent serious deterioration. Otherwise the outlook for the millers and the employees is anything but bright. Men arc now daily » seeking employment, which is not available. A local miller, who had closed down, said that the state of the timber trade was principally due to the importation of foreign timbers from Canada and the United States, causing a shortage of orders for the New Zealand commodity. Most timber yards in the buying centres are congested with New Zealand timbers, which have had to give way to the imported timbers from overseas. There is no immediate prospect of the market improving, unless builders buy only New Zealand timber. —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 10 February 1927, Page 5
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184SAWMILLS CLOSING DOWN. Wairarapa Age, 10 February 1927, Page 5
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