WAIMAPU SAWMILLING CO.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9026, 4 November 1925, Page 4

WAIMAPU SAWMILLING CO.

OI’EHATLONS AT ORo^j The latest milling p be started in Uie Tauranga district is that of the Waimapu Sawmill } ing Company, Ud., which has'obl ’ (aim’d 1 lie milling rights 0Vc * ’ about, two ihousaml acres of bugfi " in the Otanewaiuuku district. L bush contains large quantities 0 f riuiu, tanekaha, ami kaiiikatea. The Company has acquired Messrs i- Marshall, and Cr burner's sawmip e- ing plant at Oropi and is carry*, e- iwg out extensive improvements cr including the installation of a 65 ?r h.p. electrie nioior. Ihe she ic the mill is sixteen milies f r|Wa (>- Tauranga, and it. is ex peeled'' to I eonimenee cutting operations in I about a fort night. The. log haul. \ •* ing will Ik «uti«l out by a°Vul cn I hauler, which, is already set on the first, stand of timber adjacent to (he mill. The limber will be con. vcyed by mater tnicks from (he t. mill to Tauranga, where (he firm a> of Messrs Pemberton and Sons wifi act as local agents, and at whose >r works the whole, of the planing and x , dressing operations will bo carried 3 j- out. The Company will concern t _ trato on die supply of the local 0( market, and where Possible will ;a cart direct from (he. mill to (lo point desired by (he buyer, In ia addition an excellent market has been found outside New Zealand ,q for the kahikatca timber. Rfiiut 0 , ic a well-known timber, while ka. i<l hikatea is extensively used for bub )e ter boxes. Tanekaha, of which »<I there is a large quantity in, the Company’s bush, is a hard durable timber. It dresses well and 1 strongly resembles kauri. It is of close texture and is suitable for all " J classes of joinery, frames and boatd building. Tanekaha posts are " known to have been in (ho ground e at Oropi for nearly fifty years and to-day are still in a sound oondif ticn. This timber has only to br u better known to come into general , e use. The Company has many years cutting ahead of it and hopes to n meet with such patronage a-s will r enable iti to establish Ihe indus. q, try on a sound basis and find roguG , bar employment f or its staff.