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Schedule of Sawmills.

Name of Sawmill. Locality. Whether cutting on Crown. Native, or European. I Varieties of Timber-trees cut. a- >. i°. Cutting- ? £ a capacity of of-zz Mill 1 8 c. per Annum. Output per J "go Annum. £ *ft jzi co Purposes for which Timber is utilised: (a) Locally, lor Construction of Houses, or in connection with Railway nnd Koad Works; lb) Sending 10 anothei- Di.trict; (c) For Expoit outside the Colony. 1. Highfield .. Amuri .. .. European Oxford .. .. Crown Birch, black, white, and red pine Birch and red-pine 17 Sup. ft. 800,000 Sup. ft. Not working •• 2. Woodside .. 8 350,000 I 158,000 10 Locally and North Canterbury District, for construction of houses, buildings, br.dges, i&c. Ditto. 3. Mount Oxford 4. Rimu 5. Farmer's 6. Alford Forest .. Crown and European Alford Forest .. European Principally birch Birch and a little whitepine Black and white pine and ins gnis Gum, insignis, oak, and macrocarpa 10 10 8 10 400,000 400,000 350,000 j 450,000 140,000 100,000 104,000 450,000 9 7 5 12 Locally, for building houses, bridges, &c. 7. Peel Forest 8 Say, 250,000 j 12,000 } 3 Locally, for building houses, bridges, <feo. (Only occasional. y working.) Locally, for building houses, bridges, &c. (Going to different farms and cutting as required.) Ditto. 8. Scott Bros. .. South Canterbury 16 Not ascertained Ab't 100,000 4 9. Hopkinson .. Ditto .. 15 Ditto Ab't 100.000 4 Totals 102 3,000,000 1,164,000 54 •