TIMBER INDUSTRY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12879, 27 September 1912, Page 5

TIMBER INDUSTRY.

RAILAGE FROM RAKAUROA. .The importance of railway extension m connection with the development ojf tjhe timber industry ig. being showtoj wit^ me adv^ntyoT. ;£s& tyon h^W^elacning Rakauroa. For some considerable time milling operations m that and the sur,--nlir i ? IL d ,¥^?fe te^bepn, going on, but beyond a few Shhkll consignments y^ry little, has been sfent to town, the millers bemgc9nteqito t ,wait ( , im^l fc'ie railway had advanced intone ipterior sufficiently far -to* thfem " 'to'kWd the t^nber m per medium of rail. To-days marked, an imrjojttant epoch m connec-' toon w s h J^VVnaUstryi when a couple [of. truck loads oi fine rimu building j%iber from the late Mr W. L. Rees/: ifcill at'Rak&u'rba came to "hand "for Mr G... Smith, to be used m the timber work at the new hospital. This load consisted of about 5000 Jeet^ ans is jLfie first consignment to come all the way from Rakauroa by rail. Another truck load will come forward to-morrow, and thereafter the traffic m timber from the present terminus of the Gisbome-Rotorua railway will, it is hoped, be more or , less continuous. The mijl referred to is | about half a mile from the railway station, to which . the thhber. is, consigned jover a tramway, so that m all weathers a supply of timber from this source can [be depended on. The mills at Matawai ,also have a good supply m hand, and as i ; soon as the roads are sufficiently dry the iltimber will be carted to TKakahroa for (shipment to Gisborne. .