TIMBER PRODUCTION

Grey River Argus, 7 September 1939, Page 2

TIMBER PRODUCTION

On West Coast IN PAST TEN YEARS. During the past ten years 663,020, 421 superficial feet has been milled in | the Grey and Westland Counties, according to statistics supplied to the Westland Provincial Centennial or- . ganisation by the Internal Affairs De- , partment. The annual output reach- ( ed its highest le\vl of 76,411,500 sup- ' er feet in 1930, but the production Th , recent years has been well up to this • standard. In reply to a letter from ( the Executive Committee, the assist- 1 ant-secretary, National Historical.! Committee states: “I have to advise 1 that,.an exhaustive enquiry by this) service has failed to elicit any early ! t 'figures on timber production for the s .Counties of Inangahua, Grey, and 5 ■Westland which would be suitable for 1 'your purposes. The only figures' 1 i which it has been possible to obtain I 1 are those pertaining to the years 11928-1939 as set out below. As far as'* 'our records are concerned, there ap- * pears to be a total absence of any £ definite figures for these districts for J j earlier years. It was suggested, how- 1 ever, that if you communicate with j the Government Statistician he may <• [be able to supply some data for pre- j vious years.” The timber productions j for the years ending March 31st are ] as follows:— t

Pressure of time precluded the De- S partment from undertaking any re- j search work, apd it was under- ± stp.qd the Government Statistician’s r figures were not suitable in their pr,e-jh sent formi ' %

Year. Grey. Westland Total. A County. County. 1929 Super ft. Super ft. Super ft. 1 47,570,600 22,879,800, 70,450,400 I 1930 49,553,400 26,858,100 76,411,500 I 1931 29,771,930 14,847,080 44,619,010 s 1932 21,837,199 12,764,290 34,601,489 1933 24,187,240 13.045,540 38,232,780 s 1934 28,615,670 15,676,270 44,291,940 1935 34,619,600 25,263,400 59,883.000 c 1936 41,104,746 30,572,524 71,677,270. J 1937 42,886,930 32,422,350 75.309,280 e 1938 43,481,340 29,948,120 73,429,460.' : 1939 44,099,228 30,015,064 74,114,292 c c