HOME GROWN TIMBER
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS IN BRITAIN. Under war conditions the home grown timber business has become an important branch of the wood trade; the variety of jobs it has been possible to work in native hard and softwoods has exceeded expectations, states the “Port of London Authority Monthly.” Much of the home grown supplies have come from Scotland- where lumbermen from the Dominions and forestry girls are busily felling in the forests. Two and a-half million tons of timber are normally imported into this country, one-third of which is' landed in London, 'where experienced deal-port-ers are available. Nowadays some of these deal-porters are handling home grown timber cargoes which are carried by the sea route.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1943, Page 4
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116HOME GROWN TIMBER Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1943, Page 4
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