RAILWAY SAWMILLS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16174, 27 December 1924, Page 6

RAILWAY SAWMILLS.

COMMISSIONERS' COMMENTS. The railway commissioners, Sir Sam Fay and Sir Vincent Raven, thus refer to the railway sawmills: —r For some considerable time past the Comptroller of Stores has been engaged in organising railway sawmills, these having been established owing to the difficulty experienced by the Railway Department, particularly in the North Island, in obtaining suitable native timbers for railway works'. This difficulty has been overcome by the purchase and installation of sawmills for native timbers, sawmills now being in operation at Mamaku, near Rotorua, and Frankton. Junction. Each sawmill is under the direction of a sawmill manager, while each logging area is in charge of a bush manager. There is also a timber supervisor engaged in this work, his special duty being to advise and inquire into the questions relating to the use and issue of timber, and the working of bush areas and sawmills under the control of the Railway Department. The staffs employed at these sawmills and in the bush . Logging areas .are: —Frankton Junction sawmill, 97; Mamaku saw-j mill, .87; . Pokaka and Erua bush: logging areas, 57; total, -241. j