KING COUNTRY TIMBER.

Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1282, 17 August 1922, Page 6

KING COUNTRY TIMBER.

THE SUPPLIIES IN SIIGHT.

"At the present rate of cutting timber supplies along the Main Trunk will," remarked an officer of the Forestry/ Service to a ManaWatu Standard representative, "be exhausted in about 12 years—that is with the exception of supplies in inaccessible areas. Where five years or so ago the mills were cutting alongside railway sidings, they are vow operating 10 miles! back and hauliu« by traction engine. There are nearly 100 sawmills in the district embracing the Wellington. Hawke's Bay and Taranaki provinces. Quite a number of them are cutting out. and obviously if they have to go another 10 miles back for their supplies, timber cannot remain at the present prices. By dint of careful and Selective cutting, the Forestry Service hopes to secure a limited supply of timber in perpetuity, but certain areas more suitable for farming purposes are being cut Tight out."

A Manawatu dairy farmer, in alleging that the best offer he can get for prime pigs is '3|d, remarks somewhat caustically upon the statement that a pork pool is in contemplation. He asks why the meat pool cannot me its elaborate and costly machinery to control.

Gold 1 coinage of the realm has become quite a rarity these days, and it is seldom indeed that any is found in circulation. It is hardly to be 'wondered at, therefore (says the Nelson Mail) that when a half-sovereign was paid into a financial institution the other day a junior clerk w.as rather nonplussed and had to seek the advice of his seniors as to whether the coin was a half sovereign or a

sovereign.'

" A remarkable feature of the lambing season this year," remarked a large runholder to a Manawatu Standard reporter. " isi the phenomenally large number of twins and triplets recorded. Lambing generally is proceeding very satisfactorily throughout the district, the season so far having been conducive to an exceptionally light mortality. If the s ason only holds, good for the remainder of the year, lambs should be well forward for' freezing somewhat earlier than usual.