TIMBER INDUSTRY

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 5

TIMBER INDUSTRY

PROSPECT FOR BEECH

TRADE KEENLY ALERT

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, 28th July.

An announcement was made recently that certain.British motor interests at Home were making inquiries with a view to placing an order in the Dominion for a supply of nine million' feet of beech timber.

In view of the stimulus which the placing of such a large order wojuld impart to the timber and allied industries of tho Dominion, those connected with beech milling in Otago and Southland have taken the matter up with the greatest interest and enthusiasm, and have set about the task of convincing English consumers that their requirements can be satisfactorily fulfilled by New Zealand. They propose to send Homo at the expense of the industry one of their own nominees, provided the Government will arrange to have him accompanied by the forestry official who so expertly. handled : the export arrangements with Australia in 1930.

Mr. Thomas More, of Riverton, the largest beech operator :t. the Dominion, has been selected to represent the milling interests, and to-day two of the leading men Connected with the industry in Otago and Southland will leavo for Wellington to place details of the proposal before Cabinet with a view to enlisting the support of the Government in an endeavour to. secure for the Dominion a market for beech timber which will stimulate the industry, and at the same time open up a new and valuable avenue of,export trade at a time when this is more than ever desirable.