WHITE PINE SUPPLIES
SAWMILLERS' VIEW. [FEB PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, February 16. “Though there are. in the aggregate, ample supplies of white-pine for huttor boxes available from our indigenous iorests for many years to come, the immediately available supplies in some
of the more important dairying regions have become exhausted,” said Mr. A. Seed. Secretary of the Dominion Federated Sawmillers’ Association, when commenting on the decision of. the Government to limit boxes to a cer-i taiiLJl.uantity of timber. ; . the needs of the dairy-j ing industry now involves a certain! measure of organising; so that the available supplies of white pine will bp distributed to the best economic advantage. Also, it is distinctly advisable that the remaining white pine
supplies should be made to last as long l as possible. No other wood in the '.world is so eminently suitable as our ' kahikatea. both for its appearance and 'its non-tainting properties. For two it carons. therefore, the eking out. of the jsupplies, and the elimination of
needless transport cost on thick boxes, it alts been decided by the Government that the use of the old standard type of a half-inch box for butter export purposes shall be discontinued, after the close of the current dairying season. The sawmills producing white pine and the box-making industry are entirely at one with the Department in this decision, ar. another effect will be to reduce the number of thicknesses of timber which have to be cut and stacked and dried for making the millions of butter boxes which have to be provided everv dairying season."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 February 1937, Page 12
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