A WORLDWIDE timber shortage has hampered a Wangaratta business's plans to employ an additional 30 staff.
George Prothero, managing director of Tone Road's Alpine Truss, said the shortage was being felt Australia-wide due to damage wrought on plantations by NSW bushfires in February last year, compounded by a lack of imported timber due to a US housing boom.
"It is restricting our business," Mr P...
