SAWMILL INDUSTRY ESSAYS
SUCCESS OF OTAUTAU COMPETITORS Two brothers who live in Otautau have won prizes in an essay competition conducted under the auspices of the New Zealand Timber Industry Industrial Union of Employers and open to men engaged in the timber industry throughout New Zealand. Mr F. M. Thomson has won first prize of £2O for a treatise on the subject of “Sawmill Work,” and his brother, Mr J.' F. Thomson, has been awarded a second prize of £lO for a treatise on “Machining, Planing and Box Factory Work.” The brothers are the sons of Mr J. Thomson, of Otautau, and they are employed by the firm of Thomson and McKenzie, Ltd., sawmillers, Otautau.
The competition was promoted by the employers at the suggestion of the Rehabilitation Department in order to encourage returned men who wished to enter the sawmilling industry to make a particular study of specific branches of the industry.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19450524.2.39
Bibliographic details
Southland Times, Issue 25680, 24 May 1945, Page 4
Word Count
153SAWMILL INDUSTRY ESSAYS Southland Times, Issue 25680, 24 May 1945, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Southland Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in