Sawmilling Production
©awmiiung rroauction Increases in the average selling price of rough-sawn timber at the miil from 19s 3d a 100 ft in 1940-41 to 22s 4d in 1944-45 are recorded in the latest Abstract df Statistics, which reports that the increased activity in the sawmilling industry shown by the 1943-44 figures was not maintained during 1944*45, the salient features of a comparison of the two years being a decrease of 1.3 per cent, in the number of mills operating .and a 3 per cent, decrease m the output of rough-sawn timber The mills numbered 447, and the average number of persons engaged was 7765 or 41 fewer than in 1943-44; but the salaries and wages paid increased by £65,487, or 2.5 per cent. Added value rose by 1.6 per cent, the value of the products being £6,993,494.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24985, 20 September 1946, Page 6
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