TIMBER FOR THE HOME MARKET.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2411, 17 January 1895, Page 2

TIMBER FOR THE HOME MARKET.

THE AUCKLAND SHIPMENT., By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, January 16. One hundred- thousand feet of sawn timber, which is to he sent Home by the Government, and for which the Kauri Timber Company’s tender was accepted, is to be shipped by the Mamari, which leaves about Friday next for Loudon, via the South. The Kauri Timber Company are supplying 50,000 feet, and the other 80,000 they have distributed among_ the local mills. The Company’s own shipment has been very carefully prepared, and it is confidently stated that no better lot of timber was ever shipped from the Colony. Both Mr Broad, the general manager, and Mr Tl H- , White, the mUI. are confident of the adaptability Of kauri" for blocking, its great features being the evenness with which it wears,' and'its’ ing qualities. For several years now' the Kauri Tiipber .Company have been pushing tl}Bir timber in the Hpine njarkets; apt? a ; competent njsn has been sent Home to work up the trade.- Stocks qre kept at London, Liverpool, Hull, Glasgow, G roanock and Belfast, .and at the present, time several large shipments are in- course of preparation.