RAILWAY SLEEPERS
CONTRACT IN AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND ORDERS 50,000 Messrs. J. R. White and Company, - timber merchants, of Sydney, have started gangs a t work in forests in th« Lismore district of New South Wales to fill contracts for the supply of sleepers to New Zealand and China. Fifty men have started cutting, and it is expected that the number will be increased to 100 in the next few , months.
This is the first large-scale sleepercutting work in the thousands of acres of forest which surround the Lismore district. Three gangs have started work in the Whian Whian State Forest and on private lands near Goonengerry, and the present output is 500 sleepers a week. The last order from New Zealand was for 50,000 sleepers, and the order for sleepers for China is almost unlimited.
Work in the State forests is being done under strict departmental supervision, and roads into the forests, watch will open them up for future operations and for settlefhgnt, if the areas are later made available, will be coostructed by relief workers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21910, 20 September 1934, Page 8
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