The Timber Industry.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1896, Page 3

The Timber Industry.

The timber Conference was a great ■uecesi, and sawmillers, buahfellwrs and their families will be benefited thereby. The delegates h*d ample opportunity of conferring together at their hotels at nigbt, and the result will be a cessation of the terrible competition that weighed so heavily on all the producers. Already ; there it a tacit understanding that no white pine is to be sold under 6s per 100 ft for export. Before the Conference both white and red pine were selling at Rivertoo for 8i 6d which was actually less than the cost of production at fair wages. Every available information waa placed at the disposal of the delegates, and it came m a surprise to many to find that a ipeeial literature is devoted to the trade in the Old World. The beautifully illustrated American and Engliah editions were much admired and Mr Freyberg had many offers to buy them, but as they are probably the only samples in the Colony he gave the editors addresses instead. One of the leading tawmillers told Mr Freyberg that the thanks of the trade were vory freely expressed at the action of the Government and the good that is eertaio to result to all concerned in the timber industry. — Times.