TIMBER SUPPLY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25055, 20 November 1944, Page 7

TIMBER SUPPLY

the shobtage best use of labour J* graVo embarrassment the timber wa s causing those associated ■ff the industry was mentioned by *' l f.mps Fletcher, Commissioner of f r fes who was in Auckland at the fc end M r Fletcher emphasised the "that were being taken to meet f P !lmrtage. The industry was now ■ * planned, he said, so that all would he constantly employed, remittees set up by the Timber Conl or and the Building Controller now tine would at least ensure that J!. 61 limited quantity of timber avail--BJe would be used to the best advant--B gThe enormous demand for timber both . Vew Zealand and in tho Pacific for tofenc purposes had used up the whole merchants' and millers' stocks in jjjtfon to the production over the last Z e vears. The Forestry Department, millers and workers in the industry C,l done a marvellous job in mainthe rate of production over the f throe years in spite of reduced .Lower and excessive wear and tear TrS and equipment. The industry '&now entering'a period when road u&s would have, to be improved Sto the wartime reduction of maintenance while, in addition, new S were being opened up. Tnprpased production ot timber, Mr vifltcher stated, was not a matter of Strand probably a considerable time trtld elapse before any marked imortwenient would be shown. The departS was opening new areas planting Era and making every endeavour to fire the replacement of the necessary ..inmont Meantime considerable Economies had been effected in the use J timber by substitutes in house buildw Nevertheless timber was recognised the base of house construction and determined the extent to which housing could proceed. ,