SAWMILLING OPERATIONS AT RAKAUROA

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2539, 28 June 1909, Page 4

SAWMILLING OPERATIONS AT RAKAUROA

—V AIR. AY. - L. REES’ ENTERPRISE. {Fro’in our correspondent.) Great in terest is being aroused among ' the isettleps of Rakauroa in Air. AY. Ll Rees’ recpot sawmilling operations in *»%. this vicinity. His plant is silwttbcr about halka-mile fntin the Rdkauroa store, on Air. R. BeaYfoyis and is almost ready for cutting purposes, b '■ the erection of it being iu the hands,of able workmen. \ This mill is considered to be one of. the most “labor-saving” plants erected, in the Ray, most At the machinerybeing of the latest American style. Air * Rees, it is stated, intends to constructa light tramway to the terminus of the Gisborne-Rakauroa railway for the conveyance of his valuable timber to tlnr “great timber market.” Bv. this system he should be. able to place his timber on the market at a very fair figure, and, in view of the immense areas of valuable timber bush he now holds thn.lier rights for, lie should secure' a very considerable * portion of the timber trade. He does not intend to /’play” ; with the timber, as on his last vjisit to the mill lie expressed his .ideas rs. fol-. lows : “I do not intend to convey a few thousand feet of timber: to the market -» at, a time, but intern! to deal with mil- { lions of feet..”. ' " . • , The Rakauroa settlers yfferMr. r tlioir hearty congratulations on thy'T manner in which he haw commenced In* ■ task. . "