R. J. Parish Appointed Representative For Australia

Redwood Export Company, foreign trade division of the California Redwood lumber industry, has appointed Robert James Parish of Melbourne as promotional representative for Australia. Mr. Parish sailed for Melbourne on the S.S. Monterey, Tuesday, July 20, after three months in San Francisco. Fort Bragg and Eureka preparing for his new work.

Redwood Export Company's new representative in the Antipodes is a son of Leslie Robert Parish. one of the principals in the timber firm of Daly & parish, pty., Ltd., of Melbourne. He himself has been associated with that firm for the past three years.

In announcing the appointment, R.J. Gutierrez, manager of the Redwood Export Company, said: .,We are particularly anxious to promote quality wood construction in cooperation with the activities of the Timber Development Assoeiations in each state of Australia. Mr. parish will divide his time between Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane, contacting present agents and developing new business."

Australia has long been the principal source of export trade for the California Redwood lumber industry. The first cargo of Redwood was shipped there by sailing bark in 1858, 23 years before the East Coast received its first cargo.

The Australian Redwood market is almost exclusively in Clear Heart grades. Its principal uses include interior finish and trim, sash, moulding, joinery, doors and special patterns with virtually all remanufacturing done in Aus_ tralia.

Buy Retail Yard At Beaumont

A group of six partners ancl stockholclers in the Beaumont Hardware Company has purchasecl the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Beaumont. The group making the purchase include Myrl E. Beck. resident man_ ager in charge of the Beaumont Hardware Company; Lynn Bebee of Banning; A. H. Bebee, Earl Bebee, Mrs. Ruth Crowder, all of Cripple Creek, Colo., and Dale Bebee of Grand Junction, Colo. Mrs. Crorvder is a sister of the four Bebee brothers.

Plans for the future call for the construction of a ne\l, building at Fifth Street and Grace Avenue, moving the hardware store from its present site into the building along with the lumber yard office, and renaming the combined firms Beaumont Hardware and Lumber Company.

Charles Norberg, who has managed the yard for the past seven years, will be retained at manager of the lumber de_ partment of the new ,organization. Mr. Beck was in the lumber business in Colorado and Nebraska before coming to California.