Export Of Ski Lodge

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29998, 6 December 1962, Page 27

Export Of Ski Lodge

(NX. Press Association) ROTORUA, December 4. A Rotorua building firm, Lockwood Buildings, Ltd., has won an order for the first New Zealand-made ski lodge to be exported to Australia. The lodge, which will be pre-cut in Rotorua of Kaingaroa pine, sheathed with aluminium, will be erected at the Perisher valley, a fastexpanding ski resort in Australia’s Snowy Mountains region. The lodge, of about 1000 square feet, will be erected in sections and road freighted to Tauranga for shipment to Sydney. It will be shipped

late in January for early February. A Rotorua employee of Lockwood will go later to supervise erection of the hut on the Perisher village site. Speed of erection makes the firm’s buildings particularly suitable for mountain conditions. Two men can erect an average-size home in only 10 days.

Lockwoods have erected three ski club lodges on Mount Ruapehu, and have orders for two more. Mr J. J. van Loghem, a director of the firm, said the sale of the pre-cut lodge had been negotiated in spite of the rather severe difficulty of a 22J per cent Australian import duty on pre-cut New Zealand buildings.