FIFTY YEARS AGO.
i THE TIMBER INDUSTRY. ! _ ; SALE OF SAWMILLS. ! (From the HERALD of August 17. 18eC> t I • j Mr. D. J. O'Keefe has sold at auction, • J by order of the trustees in the estate, all I the plant, property, etc., belonging to the t ! Cornwallis Steam Sawmills, at Manukau -> I Heads. There was a large attendance of o i the most influential of the commercial '"; community of Auckland, perhaps the I largest, and the competition was very j fair, i- | Before commencing the sale the auctione eer stated that there were about twenty 11 1 mills in tho province, producing ,° ; 2,000,000 ft of timber per month for i, ! home consumption and exportation, and e, the average cost of wages was from E . £10.000 £12,000. The total proceeds J ..f the sale reached £1641.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16310, 17 August 1916, Page 9
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