TIMBER INDUSTRY
CONDITIONS OVERSEAS MEKCHANT'S EXPERIENCE VALUES CONTINUE TO RISE (Received October 7, noon.) FREMANTLE, Oct, 6. Mr. R, J. Jackson, manager of a large timber business in New Zealand, who is a visitor, said that notwithstanding the use of iron and concrete in the construction of 'buildings, the consumption of timber continues to rise. While in Canada, Mr. Jackson devoted practically the whole of his time to the study of the timber industry. Forests, he said, were being cut" out, and owing to the prolific natural growth -scientific afforestation had not been undertaken on a large scale. It was a remarkable fact that the Atlantic coastal cities in the United States were the world's largest importers of timber. Though there were practically inexhaustible forests on the Pacific coast, freight from thel Pacific coast, through the Panama Canal, loaded the cost of timber to the purchaser to such an extent that it was cheaper to import timber from the Continent. Longer lengths were not procurable in Europe. Constructional timber must rise in commercial value, because it was a product that could not be manufactured.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17158, 7 October 1926, Page 7
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