THE TIMBER QUESTION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12455, 3 February 1909, Page 2

THE TIMBER QUESTION.

-■ .- ■'; ... ■ ■ . '» , ' '. 1■ ; ■ [United Peess Association.] Cbristchurcb, Feb. 2. Mr E. A. Wilkes,: thn secfttary of the West Ooast Sawmillers' Association.Mn.the course of an interview, 1 stated that the scope of the Timber Commission was wide enough, but much ■would depend on. the, person^ nel of ( the, Commission. Hejfcnougbt that it 'would be a.mlstaite to restrict the^ sittings of the Commission to the four centres, while granting important enclence would be given in the oities, which, ,yvave the largest consumers of timtrtr!.' hb' was of dpibion that it was of eqtfal, , if not greater- importance, that the Commission abould visit the sawmilling districts , o± the Dominion, . and should, if possible, see the methods adopted from the felling of ' tb"e( 'tree to the cutting, and ahipment of the timber. They should falab visit the bush areas to get some idea of the available milling timbßr.