Handling Of Timber At Tauranga

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14928, 16 March 1949, Page 3

Handling Of Timber At Tauranga

Points To Be Noted Outlined

An impression of what handling the available annual limber growth would involve, assuming it was in fact being utilised, was given in a statement by Mr E. B. Brown, General Manager of Whakatane Board Mills Ltd. as follows:

Three hundred and sixty million sawn equalled 1.500,000 feet sawn per day for five days weekly for 50 weeks in each year. One and a-half million feet sawn per day would involve a ship at least as large as the James Cook arriving, bevng completely loaded and leaving each and every of the five working days of each week of the year, or the handling of 30003500 tons of timber per day. To transport 1,500,000 :eet sawn per day to a port would involve at least riine trains (each way) of at least 40 waggons each, per day, or if by lorry, and lorries capable of carrying 12,000 feet sawn each could be built and used, it would involve 125 lorry loads per day—or a lorry load every 4 to 5 minutes duri'ng a normal 8 to 9 hour day. It was estimated that the building of the rail link between Murupara and Edgecumbe might take five years, by which time the quantity of timber estimated above should be available from the 1926 and earlier plantings.