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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144130, 27 June 1913, Page 7

Mr. A. W. Woods leaves to-night to take up his residence in Auckland. Everyone knows that the price of timber has gone up during recent years, but there are many people who have no idea of the great advance which has taken place. Talking this week with one of Wellington’s lending business men a Post reporter obtained some interesting information showing how the .tariff has gone up during the past thirteen years. In 1909 red pine (ordinary building) was selling hero at 9s 6d pe.r hundred feet; to-day the price is 19s (id. The advance in the price of heart of matai has been more marked. Thirteen years ago local timber merchants charged ISs 6d for it, and now' they are getting 225. Totara is scarcer than it was, and that fact is to a great extent responsible for an advance of 7s since TOGO, viz., from ISs to 255, and in the case of totara, clean for joiners’ purposes, 27s 6d. “Kauri is kauri nowadays,” said our informant, “The price is going up all tha time, and through no fault ot the merchants. The bushes up North are not so numerous as they were, tho demand is greater, and wages have gone up.” The speaker wont on to say that first-class kauri fetched 19s a hundred in 1900, and now the price for 12-inoh widths is 365, while a shilling is charged for every additional inch, bo that, a person who wanted kauri a foot and a half in width would have to pay at the rate of 42s per hundred foot,’ A fair quantity of Oregon pino is still coming into Wellington and is fetching 20s. It is easy to work, and being obtainable in largo lengths is in demand for certain classes of work. MEETINGS. TARANAKI EGG CIRCLE. THE Annual General Meeting of the Circle will be held in tho Borough Council Chambers on July 2, 1913, at 8 p.m. All members are requested to be present. E. W. GRIFFITHS, c 261 Secretary. AGRICULTURAL SHOWS. “Where are you going to, My Pretty Maid?” “I’m going to THE DAIRY SHOW, Sir,” she said. THE FOURTH THE FOURTH DOMINION DAIRY SHOW, HAWERA, THE MOST POPULAR FIXTURE IN TARANAKI. Great carnival REAT 'LmRNIVAL w PEEK. ' EEK. WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 26. 27, 28. ' Tho Week will bo full of attractions. FOOTBALL! FOOTBALL 1 WELLINGTON v. TARANAKI. WANGANUI v. TARANAKI. SEE SEE SEE THE TERRITORIAL GYMKHANA. SIDE SHOWS GALORE 1 SIDE SHOWS GALORE! EXCURSION TRAINS and CHEAP FARES from all parts. Children in Charge of Teachers FREE FRIDAY and SATURDAY. Let the children receive the benefit of witnessing this Fine Exposition. For full and further particulars apply A. M. CONROY, Show Secretary, Bos 174, Hawera, ’Phone 125.