TIMBER IN CARGO
,\ ——— FIRST FROM NEW PLYMOUTH
(By Telegraph) ' (Special to the "Evening Post.")
NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.
The first large shipment of New Zealand milled timber ever shipped through' the port of New Plymouth, 175,000 superficial feef of matai, was carried by the Abel Tasman on her ill-fated voyage. The ; consignment was shipped to various Australian purchasers.
Timber, obtained from the milling districts, at National Park and other parts of the King Country, has hitherto been shipped almost entirely through Auckland and Wanganui, and the shipment by the Abel Tasman was in the nature' of a trial. >
In addition to milled timber, the largest single consignment of trees and shrubs ever exported by New Plymouth nurserymen to Australia was carried by the Abel Tasman. The consignment was the third made to the Commonwealth this' season, and comprised about 35 cases of trees and shrubs for Melbourne, Sydney, and Tasmania. One order for a private Sydney purchaser was of very new and rare rhododendrons, some of which I were five and six fe.fet in height.
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Evening Post, Issue 17, 20 July 1936, Page 10
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175TIMBER IN CARGO Evening Post, Issue 17, 20 July 1936, Page 10
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