BUILDING TIMBER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 25 March 1922, Page 5

BUILDING TIMBER.

PRICES SEDUCED.

C BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION .) TAIHAPE, March 24. At a meeting of the Main Trunk sawmi 1 »ers at Ohakune on Thursday, a lead was taken for getting back to normal in reducing the price of,building timber. While increasing royalties and reduced output warrant an increase, with a view to cheapening the erection of workers 3 homes the on-truck price at Ohakune of building heart, rough heart, ordinary building scantlings, secondclass scantlings, and sarking have been reduced two shillings per hundred feet. The Waikato price lists have been adjusted to Main Trunk prices, all of which will take effect to-day. Farmers 3 fencing battens have also been reduced by five shillings.