PROCESSING TIMBER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30125, 8 May 1963, Page 14

PROCESSING TIMBER

Plants Planned For Coast Several companies besides his own would soon be processing timber on the West Coast, the head of a leading Christchurch timber company said yesterday "They are keeping quiet at the moment,” he said. He said that the processing of timber on the Coast had become political now. People wanted to boost the Coast which, of course, the Coast needed. If the Coast did not get a “shot in the arm” from somewhere, there was no knowing where the Coast would finish up. He said that there would be “quite a development” in industry based on timber on the West Coast, in the next few years. “I think there will be many of these industries,” he said. “The larger ones will start processing on the Coast It is the only economical way to work in the timber trade. They’re bringing too much raw material and bulk stuff from the Coast for nothing. Half of the green timber transported here is water ” He said that by taking shavings from the Coast. 100 tons had to be brought across fo every 30 tons (of product) delivered to the customer One of the Fletcher group of companies is planning to build a plywood factory at Gladstone.