Trial Order Of Sawn Pine For Britain

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31986, 13 May 1969, Page 32

Trial Order Of Sawn Pine For Britain

fNcw Zealand Press Association)

TAURANGA, May 12. New Zealand timber interests are seeking new markets for sawn pine in Britain.

A chartered Greek freighter, the Corthian, left the Port of Tauranga at the week-end with 46,000 board feet of radiata pine consigned to Hull, England. The shipment is part of a trial order for about one million board feet to be supplied by the Fletcher Timber Company, Ltd. Another shipment will be loaded this week.

Timber industry officials said today the shipments could be the forerunner of an important break-through for New Zealand's timber exports in an entirely new market.

Up to now exports of precut and packaged radiata pine have been confined to Australia, Japan and the Pacific islands.

Mr A. T. Jewell, chairman of directors of the Fletcher Timber Company, Penrose, said today the timber being shipped was a grade used

mainly for heavy packaging, and had been purchased by an English buyer wno had visited New Zealand and inspected various timbers. A Fletchers executive was now on his way to Britain to make further investigations into the possibilities of the market.