Log Shipments From Timaru

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31662, 24 April 1968, Page 1

Log Shipments From Timaru

(From Our Own Reporter! TIMARU, April 23. More logs will be exported to Japan in August. The timber for the first of nine shipments estimated to earn slm in overseas exchange, will be from the Ashburton district.

The new trade is the culmination of talks between J. Scott and Company, Ltd, a Dunedin firm of timber merchants, and Jardine Matheson

(Japan) Company, Ltd.

The contract for the shipments has been arranged in conjunction with the New Zealand Forest Service, which has in view the replacement of unsatisfactory plantations in the Ashburton area.

The logs for the initial shipment will be carted to the new north mole reclamation j area at Timaru by R. R. Price, Ltd, of Christchurch, and stockpiled at a rate of 70,000 haakondahl feet a day. The area was termed “Little Eyrewell” several years ago when logs for Japan were stockpiled there. The first log shipments to Jaban from Timaru were in 1961 from plantations at Ealing and Westerfield. The trade lapsed until winds damaged the Eyrewell State Forest in 1964. The first consignments were railed from Kaiapoi in July, 1964. In 12 months there were 14 shipments amounting to more than 23m haakondahl feet. The trade continued until early in 1966 until approximately 50m haakondahl feet had been sent in 21 shipments.