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Government intervention to save NZ industry

01 May 2014
Government intervention is the only way to save the timber industry according to New Zealand political party NZ First. Sources: NZ News Wire, Yahoo 7 News
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Forestry industry review under union scrutiny

01 May 2014
Unions are accusing the New Zealand Minister of Labour of taking the teeth out of a promised review of New Zealand's most deadly industry, forestry. Sources: Radio New Zealand, ONE News
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Eradicating Pinus Contorta

01 May 2014
New Zealand’s Conservation Department (DoC) hopes the New Zealand Defence Force will clear trees on Army land and that the Horizons Regional Council and private landowners will help. Source: Wanganui Chronicle
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TV ads for wood are a grand design

01 May 2014
Award-winning architect Peter Maddison, host of Grand Designs Australia, is promoting wood for Planet Ark and Wood. Naturally Better. Source: Timberbiz
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Recycled hardwood for bridges

01 May 2014
Timber from the cleared Nambucca Heads to Urunga Pacific Hwy route is being recycled for use on heritage timber bridges. Source: The Coffs Coast Advocate
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New Forest buys Gunns plantations says no to pulp mill

01 May 2014
The new owner of vast tree plantations previously held by failed timber company Gunns Ltd will focus on exporting the resource as woodchips and is sceptical about prospects for a pulp mill in Tasmania. Sources: The Australian, ABC News
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Southern Cross Forest Products sale

01 May 2014
Financially stricken wood processor Southern Cross Forest Products has attracted local and international interest from potential buyers, and its receiver hopes to progress the sale next month. Source: The New Zealand Herald
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AFCA says industry under resourced

24 April 2014
Colin McCulloch chief executive officer of the Australian Forest Contractors Association (AFCA) said that he didn’t think he had seen the industry as busy but as under resourced. Source: Timberbiz
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Blue gums put out to pasture

24 April 2014
Several thousand hectares of farmland is up for grabs in Victoria, and similar land parcels have been on offer in South Australia and Western Australia in recent times. Source: ABC Online
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Gippsland moves closer to timber training

24 April 2014
Wellington Shire Council will convene a meeting to further investigate the potential for a timber and forestry education precinct for Gippsland. Source: The Gippsland Times and Maffra Spectator
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