A TIME OF STRESS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 273, 22 December 1914, Page 11

A TIME OF STRESS.

THE SAWMILLING INDUSTRY. * DEPUTATION TO PRIME MINISTER. Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 22. The plight of the sawmilling industry in New Zealand, through the slump in building caused by the war, was placed before the Premier to-day by a large deputation of leading sawmillers. The deputation asked for some relief from the State in the shape of a moratorium for the protection of remission of rentals. Mr Massey expressed his sympathy with the sawmillers. He pointed out that the moratorium did not apply at present to the sawmilling industry where timber was cut from private or Native land, and what course would be taken would depend on the Houses, and when the House would meet he could not at present say. In cases where timber was being cut from Crown Land that was a matter of. administration and he was quite prepared to make a recommendation to his colleagues on that point. ; -