SAWMILLING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13807, 19 January 1909, Page 6

SAWMILLING.

MR MANDER'S OPINION. Jt'er Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. " Sawmillers in. New Zealand are, generally speaking in a very serious ' baiu iVir JlanUer, ni.P., to a ■'Post" reporter. " Besides the fact that there is little building going on, and consequently a. small demand, .-•.uierici 11 u.uucr on<n*rb •.<»<. competition with- the New Zealand article. .1.110 only remady is a -stirf duty ; otherwise saw millers will have to go into liquidation. Thousands of men will he thrown idle, and millions of the best of valuable timber go up ill smoke, because the land must, be cleared for settlement, and if the mills are not there to cut it out, it must be burned down." SHOWING INDEPENDENCE. PALMERSTON N., Jan. IS. It is stated here on the authority of a Wairarapa .sawmiller that at a i> ing of Wairarapa sawmillers held £.t Masterton on Saturday, - the Wairsira\>a millowners 'decided to secede from the Sawmillers 1 Association, and conciui t

| business as was done prior to chs UTI mation of the Association.

A DENIAL. \ MASTERTON, .Tan. 18. , Re the alleged decision ol the Wairarapa sawmillers to secede Ironv the Sawmillers' Association and conduct their business as-prior to the institution of the Association, Mr W. McKono, manager of the Wairarana. snwnii-Jlers, gives an- emphatic denial to the statement. He says that lie scarcely believes the Palnierston North statement has been made on the authority, of any person present at- the; meeting.