WEST COAST TIMBER TRADE.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13052, 11 March 1911, Page 3

WEST COAST TIMBER TRADE.

Tlio member for Wcstland, Mr T. E. Y. Seddon, reached Wellington this week after a visit to the West Coast, and gave a "New Zealand Times" representative particulars of the way in which the district is developing. The most satisfactory news was that after a long depression the timber trade has revived and is actually so flourishing that Mr Seddon felt justified in saying that there is a boom. * "So tin like, what prevailed this time last year," he remarked. "The local ■ demand is good, but tho industry is doing well, principally because of the large Australian orders for white pine. Prices are satisfactory, but I have had again to make urgent representations to tho Railway Department - regarding the lack of sufficient trucks to carry on the business." As an indication of the expected permanence of the season of prosperity, Mr Seddon stated that Messrs Butler Bros., of Hokitika. have laid down one of the largest mills in 'the country, equipping it with the, ir.ost modern machinery. They have, in fact, taken their competitors, the Oregon mills, as a pattern, and their plant is capable of an output of 40,000 feet of sawn timber per day.