SUPPLY OF TIMBER.
I NEW KING COUNTRY MILLS. i {COMMENCING NEXT YEAR. ( LARGE AREA AVAILABLE. [BY'TEt EGRAPH —OWK CORRESPONDENT.] s TAUMARUNUI, Monday. i It is reported on reliable authority that .the Tongan'ro Sawmill Company is at last !■ about to commence operations, and intends i.to build mills capable of cutting 40,000,000 ''feet of timber a year. The block in which the timber is rttuated is between Kakahi and Tokaanu. It> comprises 68,000 acres of bush with approximately 3Q,oOoft of timber per acre, and 20,000 acres of bush with 25,000 ft per acre. Tina timber will be brought to Kakahi for sh.?pment on a railway which th<s company anticipates building, and will make a starfe -early next year. Witliln a, few years the line- will have been emended 18 miles into the block, where a will be established, and the remainhij; portions of the bush will be milled. Besides this enormous quantity of timber to be milled, the railway would mean access in I'uture to seme 250,000 acres of really good' farming land, which is now partly cleaned and ready for settlement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17338, 9 December 1919, Page 11
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180SUPPLY OF TIMBER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17338, 9 December 1919, Page 11
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