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Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1934, Page 14

“White pine, or kahikatea, is the most valuable timber we are handling now,” said Mr. C. R. Lovatt, principal of the large Whangarei milling firm. “Despised a few years ago, it now gives a better return, log for log, than rimu, so far as North Auckland is concerned.” The average price ranges about £1 for 100 ft. Mr. Lovatt said that his firm last month created a record output of 28,000 butter boxes, which w r ent to district factories between Waipu and Kaikohe. In the manufacture of these boxes 112,000 superficial feet of kahikatea was used.