IMPORTED TIMBER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 171, 21 July 1928, Page 15

IMPORTED TIMBER.

Referring to the timber industry in New Zealand, Mr. Phelan, secretary of the timber workers' industry, in an interview with a representative of your paper, says that the industry is practically at a standstill. In referring to further restrictions on imported timber he says that timber that must be imported should be in the rough. If that was done hundreds of men in the building trade and timber industry could be employed in making such articles an doors, windows, Oregon flooring, arct other lines. Would it not be much better to have those articles manufactured in this country, and so to a great extent solve the unemployment problem? 1 have skilled workmen coming to me every day asking for employment, but am unable to employ them. Why do not our members in Parliament see to it that further restrictions be placed on those imported lines that can be manufactured in this country? Another article imported to a large extent is wallboard; this can also be manufactured here. Enough money is going out of this country for the importation of motor car 6 and other goods that cannot be manufactured here, without sending money out for goods that can be made here. G. OHMS.