In an interview with a Danncvirke Press reporter, the manager of tho Hawke's Bay •Sjawmillers' Association stated that the recent bush fires had practically crippled the sawmilling industry in the province. : The output had fallen from an average of three and a quarter million feet to one and threequarter- million. It was' absolutely - impossible for tho mills in Hawke's Bay to supply orders on time. Five _ mills had been practically destroyed by fire^—Cohr's (Norsewood), Parsons's (Norsewood), Gamman's (Otanga), the Fairburn Co.'s (Pohui), and Anderson and Son's- (Piripiri). The other mills suffered great loss in tramlines and bridges, and' possibly £10,000 would be a low estimate or the loss over the province.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 126, 20 February 1908, Page 5
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