STATE SAWMILLS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 10

STATE SAWMILLS

AND PRIVATE MILLS,

The sawmilling section of the "Now Zealand Bulletin" for November contains reports that in the Waikato the timber trade is very slack, and that in addition to the competition of imported timbers in the main market (Auckland) the Railway Department's sawmill at Frankton "is competing very severely for what little local trade is offering."- Also, "information has reached us that some time at the beginning of last month (October) the Government found it necessary to dismiss thirty-one timber-workers from the Kail way Department's sawmill at Mamaku owing to accumulation of lower grade stocks which could not be marketed in- competition with, imported timbers, and wo have since heard that this mill has been closed down altogether. If tho Government finds it nenecessary to dismiss so many hands and thus augment the unemployment problem owing to the competition from imported timbers, surely the Ministers should need no further convincing of the absolute necessity for more reasonable Customs protection for tho timber industry."