THE TIMBER INDUSTRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12781, 3 February 1905, Page 5

THE TIMBER INDUSTRY .

. •_, * ■ i ■•-'-"■ 1 A GOVERNMENT MILL. i J [BT TELEGRAPH. —OWN" .' CORRESPONDENT.] '- ;.V ,'. Wellington, Thursday. . Mr. Dt/thik, M.H.R.; who recently visited Roto ma, travelled homeward, by way of . Te Kuiti audi Taumarunui. He says a great i deal of enterprise is shown along the line of railway. "Two timber mills," he says, "are al- I 1 ready at work, receiving their supplies from 1 the bush, 10 miles distant, and 10 or 11 * other mills are constructed, or in course of t construction, in the neighbourhood beyond < Taumarunui. Here also the Government, c without noise of trumpet, is apparently > building a mill, which is in an advanced A stage of construction." f The sawmill spoken, of by Mr. Duthio as ( having been established by the Government < on tho Main Trunk railway route is a small mill, which has been built at Kakahi, a little south of Taumarunui. At this point the railway route is in the great Waimarino forest, which extendi: from Taumarunui to Raetihi, and the Government 1 accordingly decided that the totara timber removed to make way for the railway should he cut up. on the ground, and used as sleep- ~ ers in the construction works. This means • that sleepers can be procured at one-fourth the cost originally paid, as, before this was . resolved upon,' it was necessary to purclme f them in Auckland. 8