THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 163, 10 July 1914, Page 9

THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.

810 SUPPLY OF LOGS. Recent rains have resulted in large supplies of lofrs bcim: brought down to the i.noirics and at th<» present time a tremendous number having been rafted t" Auckland are now lying in Freeman's Bay on the waterfront "of the L.OB. and a!-o the J'arker-Lamb Timber Mills. Considering all that ha= been written regardinsr the kauri being a vanishing iiiuniity in the timber industry, it Is quite a revelation to see such a large number of logs in the bay at one timo. A good deal of progress is noticeable at that end of Customs Street. The ParkerLamb Company is now ;<bout completing a fine large mill 10 replace the one destroyed by lire. On the opposite side nf t ie road new buildings have been erected by the L.OB. Timber Co.. and large quantities of Oregon pine are stacked in readiness for th<* renewed activity in building which usually scte in with tinspring. On the northern ride of the Pai-ker-Lamb ( i>.'s mill a line road has jii-t been completed, and another is now in course of formation in front of the mill. This will be continued across at the bane of Vi -toria Park, and Uike tho place of tie narrow unformed track along which a food deal of rartins hais been done of late years. When all three works are completed the timber miUs east, of ("ust'ims Street will be more in keeping with the progress made iv other parts of the waterfront.