WEST COAST TIMBER TRADE.
ACUTE DEPRESSION. (From Our Own Cobrespokdest.) GREFMOUTB, November 24. The depression in the timber trade lm being acutely felt on the West Coast, where a large number of mills have already closed down, whilst others are woTking with only half the ordinary staff. Were it not for the demand for white pine in Australia an absolute general cessation of timber output would be imperative, •yen the safety valve of the white pine trade, however, is not eternal, and the prospects in that direction have brought about a mutual decision to stop cutting definitely. I for a month from December 18. A percentage of the white piners, jndging by the balance of orders uncompleted, will conclude their work for tfiis year earlier than the date set down. A huge industry, a maximum wage-earning power, a veritable backbone to this and other districts, stands in dire jeopardy, and unless Government immediately takes action in the matter with a view to protecting local millers, the position will indeed be a gray« one.
**The older you get the more you trust a man," said a farmer, 83 years of age, when giving evidence in the Wellington Supreme Court in a oaso in 'which a man was charged with having stolen kk wartok and chaiat
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Otago Witness, Issue 2855, 2 December 1908, Page 12
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214WEST COAST TIMBER TRADE. Otago Witness, Issue 2855, 2 December 1908, Page 12
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