BID TO SAVE SAWMILL
(From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, Jan. 29. The member of Parliament for Westland (Mr P. Blanchfield) will meet the Minister of Forests (Mr Maclntyre) when the latter visits the Inangahua district on Thursday in an effort to keep the Roa State sawmill going in spite of the announcement on Friday of its pending closure. Mr Blanchfield said today he would ask the Minister to give “some of the taxpayers bush to the taxpayers’ mill to keep it going.” One possible reason for its closure, he added, was that the mill was “running out of bush”.
The mill operates profitably for the Mines Department, according to the Westland Timber Workers’ Union, which yesterday sent a telegram to the Minister of Mines (Mr Shand) asking for an explanation for the closure. The union secretary (Mr G. E. Logie), who met the 15 men affected with Mr Blanchfield on Sunday, said yesterday: “We cannot understand why an apparently profitable State enterprise should have to close.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31590, 30 January 1968, Page 26
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