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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23411, 19 August 1941, Page 6

War-time Timber Supplies

The shipment of food and beer to the New Zealand troops serving in the Middle East has forced the State Forest Service to fnake arrangements for the delivery of 15,000;000 board feet of timber, largely rimu and matai, as supplies of the usual boxing timbers have become so acute as to necessitate their allocation to more essential purposes. The annual report of the service, also refers to the supply of kauri for the construction of minesweepers in New Zealand. Stocks of suitable Sizes were unfortunately extremely-low, -arid as : a result special logs had t6 bt selected from State forests and delivered to supplying mills. - r

Trade With. East Africa

Because all the territories formerly known as Italian East Africa are now areas in the occupation of His Majesty, the Minister for Supply (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan), in an interview said; he was pleasedto advise that persons and firms and companies could new, sq far a 9 the Enemy Trading Emergency Regulations, 1939, were concerned, trade with any body or persons (whether corporate or unmeorporate) carrying on business in those territories. It was to be clearly understood. Mr-Sullivan said, that his announcement dealt purely with matters concerning enemy trading,; and , persons must, of course, comply with any other; regulations to force eilher to New Zealand or the- territories' affected; ’ ■-